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13 held as police demolish criminals’ ‘hideouts’ in Ishawo

THIRTEEN persons have been arrested over the April 9 Ishawo attack in which 12 persons, including a soldier and four policemen, were killed. Lagos State Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni made this known yesterday, just as the demolition of illegal structures around Ishawo creek said to belong to militants, began. Owoseni, who supervised the demolition,Read More
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THIRTEEN persons have been arrested over the April 9 Ishawo attack in which 12 persons, including a soldier and four policemen, were killed.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni made this known yesterday, just as the demolition of illegal structures around Ishawo creek said to belong to militants, began.

Owoseni, who supervised the demolition, said the suspects, believed to be militants, were helping the police to track down others.

The suspects, he said, had assisted the police with pictorial and other means of identification of the policemen’s killers, adding that with those details, the command would not engage in ‘’wild catching’’.

According to Owoseni, the demolition of the illegal structures is part of measures to flush out militants and other criminals.

The police, he said, deployed operatives of the Marine, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Mobile Force (PMF), anti-kidnapping units and local vigilantes for the operation.

Owoseni said the joint operation ordered by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode following the killings was yielding results, adding that the perpetrators would be hunted.

He said: “Following the attack that occurred at Ishawo where we lost four of our policemen and an army Captain, we have deployed operatives in the water. What you have seen now is for us to appraise what we have been doing for the past one week.

“Quality arrests have been made and we are talking to them. We believe that we got some evidential value from the arrests made. So, they are talking to us, at least that has made us to know who we are looking for so that we would not wild catch.”

Owoseni, accompanied by Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Commander Tunji Disu, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), said the hoodlums would not sleep because they have murdered sleep.

He said: “Earlier this morning, they were able to get to the proper camps of these criminal elements, where some of them who were cooking fled immediately they saw security forces. We just felt that we should destroy the camps.

“The destruction is ongoing, that is why we are here and the officers that are handling the destruction of the camps are right inside the creeks. They would share the story as they finish the operations, but our movement here is just for you to see the terrain and see what the security operatives are facing with regards to policing this environment and that is why we are clamouring for the destruction of these shanties. We will make sure that all of them (the hoodlums) are routed and that they face the full wrath of the law.

“We are making progress with investigation and you can see that helicopter surveillance is also supporting all what we are doing. We want to assure the residents that the government is ready, security agents are ready to ensure that this madness is stopped.’’

Owoseni added: “I want to use this opportunity to thank the civilian men that have decided to join us and take us to navigate the water and also give us a lead to the centre of activities, which is the creek where these criminal elements have been hibernating.”

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Source:The Nation Nigeria

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