Lagos Won’t Tolerate Kidnapping—Ambode

On Sunday, March 6, 2016, the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni, led a team of security operatives to rescue the three students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Ikorodu kidnapped by gunmen on Monday, February 29, 2016.

The news of the freedom of the victims soothed their parents and family members because of the pains they went through during the horrific period the girls were away.

Officers of the Police, the Department of State Security and the Armed Forces worked tirelessly round the clock to secure the release of the children, the governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, said in his speech after the release of the girls.

He disclosed that one of the suspected kidnappers, one Emmanuel Arigidi, was arrested during the operation to secure the release of the abducted children.

Ambode warned that the “State Government will not tolerate kidnapping or any forms of crime in the State. Our position is clear and unambiguous, Lagos state has the capacity and the will to go after every form of crime and criminality in order to safeguard lives and property in the state.”

He said the “three girls have been safely re-united with their families and the Government wishes to assure Lagosians that their security is top priority and it will not relent in ensuring that Lagos remains safe and secure.”

The governor used the “opportunity to wish all mothers in Lagos State and Nigeria at large a happy Mothers’ Day.”