Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, on Wednesday, sternly warned men of the Lagos State Police Command never to allow hoodlums to destroy or raze any police station in the state again.
Baba handed down the warning when he addressed policemen at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja, the state capital.
The IGP is currently on a three-day work visit to Lagos.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, who welcomed the IGP to the state, said 16 police stations and 13 police posts were razed by hoodlums in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests last October.
Also, six policemen were killed in the attacks, 106 cops were injured while 62 patrol vehicles were burnt and some vandalised.
Odumosu, therefore, appealed to the IGP to assist in rebuilding the destroyed structures for more effectiveness of the Command.
The IGP, in his address, charged the cops to be alive to their duties and protect their lives and property, noting that “never again should your police stations be sacked by hoodlums wielding guns, sticks and machetes,” Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement titled, ‘IGP Baba Lectures Officers And Men Despite Heavy Rain In Lagos’.
“Your welfare is being taken care of like never before, do not commit suicide by being unprofessional,” the IGP was also quoted as saying.
Adejobi also said the IGP was not booed in Lagos on arrival contrary to a publication( not FirstNews).
“The publication is false, baseless and mischievous as the Inspector-General of Police was never booed; rather he was warmly received and celebrated by Lagosians,” the Lagos PPRO said.