The Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Abubakar Umar Manko, has said that the state Security Council had
decided to set up a joint taskforce of all the security services, to go after
men in uniform who flout restriction laws on use of motorcycles and those of
them who abuse the dedicated lanes meant for the use of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
vehicles.
He revealed this after the weekly
State Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Babatunde Fashola at the
Lagos House, Marina.
“We are not very happy about that and that is why we are
saying it clearly that we will go after (the men) ourselves and I think that is
a warning to other people that would want to disobey these laws, that if we can
go after our men they should be prepared for that too,” Manko warned further.
Also responding to a question on importation and storage of
fireworks during the festivities, the Commissioner said fireworks are items of
restricted use adding that there are laws guiding the importations and usage of
such items.
“The Council today agreed that anybody who wants to import
these items into the country must follow the rules, must follow the laws
because the security agencies will not allow what happened last year to come up
again. Therefore, we are going to go after the importers of these items to
ensure that they comply with the rules, with the laws, for both importation and
usage,”,he said.
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