Police seek community support to tackle cultism, electoral violence in Lagos

Commissioner of Police successful Lagos State, Fatai Tijani, has called connected community, traditional, and younker leaders to fortify collaboration with the constabulary successful tackling cultism, electoral violence, and different societal vices crossed the state.

The CP made the entreaty during a stakeholders’ information gathering organised arsenic portion of activities marking this year’s National Police Week, stressing the request for a corporate attack to addressing rising information concerns.

“We request your collaboration to combat cultism successful our society. We indispensable besides code issues similar electoral unit arsenic we attack the predetermination period. We request to talk to our youths and children due to the fact that they are often the ones drawn into specified acts. Families and assemblage leaders indispensable amended young radical astir its dangers and consequences,” helium said.

Tijani emphasised that maintaining information is simply a shared responsibility, noting that instrumentality enforcement unsocial cannot efficaciously tackle the challenges without nationalist support.

“This cannot beryllium done by the constabulary alone. Every azygous idiosyncratic is simply a constabulary officer, whether successful mufti oregon successful uniform. The lone quality is the azygous we wear. Beyond that, we are each the aforesaid due to the fact that nary 1 wants insecurity successful the environment,” helium added.

Also speaking, the typical of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, Lagos Chapter, Adigun Ibrahim, highlighted the increasing interaction of cultism, ho...