LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR, MR. BABATUNDE FASHOLA SAN (MIDDLE) PRESENTING THE WALKIE TALKIES/BATTERIES, BULLET PROOF VESTS TO NIGERIA POLICE
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has warned of the high possibilities of building collapse occurring in police barracks across the state.
Speaking during the inauguration of the newly reconstructed Area C Command headquarters in Surulere on Tuesday, the governor cited the dilapidated buildings in the Ojuelegba Police Barracks as a classic example.
Fashola, who inaugurated the command headquarters, named after a former Commissioner of Police, late Kafaru Tinubu, lamented the failure of the Federal Government to adequately fund law enforcement agencies in the country despite receiving 52 per cent of the federal allocation.
He said, “The police quarters in Ojuelegba are in a state of structural dysfunction. I have written to bring the attention of the Federal Government to the poor state of these quarters. I hope that someone will discharge his responsibility so that the building does not collapse.
“We need to have the occupants of the building evacuated. The structural integrity of the building is no longer reliable, and I hope that someone will act so that we do not lose lives”.
Fashola noted that the structures in the Ojuelegba Police Barracks were built by the colonial administration before the country’s independence in 1960.
“But years after, those who gave us the former buildings have slowly redeveloped their building to suit the current standard in their own country. It was their best at that time. Over 50 years after, we have yet to move a step further from where they left us.
“If we had continued to wait for the Federal Government, the burnt Area C Command would still be standing eight years ago after it was burnt by protesters. And that was why we set out to show that the central government had left several things undone. This new building, represent the police command that I wish to have in Nigeria, especially Lagos State”, Gov. Fashola stated.
Speaking on the new edifice, the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, who was represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Logistics and Supply, DIG Mamman Tsafe, said efforts were on to address issues affecting the police barracks.
The IG urged the police in the state to use the facilities provided by the state government judiciously.
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