Just In: Ogun orders 24-hour patrol on long bridge, Kara ..as Police ban hawking on the bridge

Damilola Ajibola

The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has ordered immediate reinforcement and beefing up of security with 24-hour uninterrupted patrol around Kara and Long Bridge 

The Governor assured  people living and working around the axis that his administration would do everything possible to ensure their total safety. 

News Contact Online recalled that there were disturbing reports of hoodlums robbing motorists of their valuables around Kara area and long bridge.

Meanwhile,the State Police Command had directed it’s tactical teams to provide adequate security in the areas.

This was contained in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Thursday.

The statement reads, “In view of the road construction work going on at Kara end of long bridge along Lagos-Ibadan expressway, which gives hoodlums opportunity to be attacking innocent members of public on the long bridge, the commissioner of Police CP Lanre Bankole has directed the command’s tactical teams to move to the area and compliment the efforts of the divisional policemen in patrolling the area. 

“It has also been discovered that some of the hoodlums are pretending to be hawking goods on the bridge during traffic gridlock and using the opportunity to carry out robbery operations. 

“To this end,the Command is  hereby using this medium to warn all those hawking goods on the bridge to quit with immediate effect in order to sanitize the environment and deter the criminals from perpetrating crime on that bridge and anywhere around.

“The Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole who was on the said long bridge today for on the spot assessment therefore assured members  of the public especially the commuters plying the road  of their safety as the command will do everything possible within the ambit of the law to flush out the hoodlums in the area.”