Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has handed over a newly constructed Police Post in Ayobo Ipaja area of the State, restating his commitment to protect and secure the lives and properties of residents regardless of where they reside and ensure increased security presence in the suburbs.

Ambode, said the location of Ayobo marginally within the boundary communities and the attendant security challenges of inter-state robberies and land grabbers menace made it more imperative to improve the security of the axis.

According to him, the completion of the police post would provide an enabling environment for the police to effectively perform the duty of stemming the menace of criminal activities such as armed robberies, kidnapping, rape, cultism, gang war among others in and around the community.

“The determination of this administration to ensure a well secured state that will be unsafe for criminals and their allies had informed the huge investment on security related issues, like the provision of modern security equipment, vehicles and structures to strengthen the crime fighting capacity of security agencies, as well as ensure their mobility within the nooks and crannies of the State,” he said.

The Governor who spoke through Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, Seye Oladejo, also called on security officials that would be manning the police post to exercise due care and diligence in carrying out their duties of securing lives and properties, urging them to ensure the rights and dignity of the citizens are not in any way violated.

Also speaking during the commissioning, the Lawmaker representing Ipaja at the House of Assembly, Bisi Yusuf said the actualisation of the dream of the police post was a demonstration of a true government of inclusiveness promised by the Governor.

Yusuf said if the proposal to enact laws in support of neighbourhood watchers across the State was eventually approved, Lagos would become a reference point of a secured state and a no go area to perpetrators of crimes.

Sole Administrator of Ayobo Ipaja LCDA, Abiodun Agbaje urged residents of the area to assist the police officers by giving them necessary cooperation and living in peace with one another.

Agbaje also pleaded for display of high level of professionalism and respect for human rights among officials of the force, saying the Governor had displayed beyond doubt his commitment to security of lives and properties of Lagosians with several interventions in nipping in the bud the activities of criminal elements in some parts of the State.

Divisional Police Officer in charge of the police post, Assistant Suprintendent of Police Chinedu Chineze described the intervention of the police post as timely and a relief to the community.

Chineze said the provision of patrol vehicles for easy mobility and connectivity around the community and neighbouring communities would further make the work of securing the areas seamless.

Chairman of the Community Development Association, of the area, Aderibigbe Adesanya commended the swift response of the government to the yearnings of residents of Olayemi-Tella community who provided the land upon which the police post was built.