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Folake Sokoya
Chairman, Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC), Mr. Israel Ajayi has appealed to the public to stop killing suspected members of the cult group otherwise known as Badoo boys.
Ajao, a retired Police DIG, made the appeal during a security town hall meeting organised by the corps for the communities in and around Ikorodu in Lagos State. Describing the killing of badoo members by mob action as uncivilised.
“If anyone arrests any suspect, such should be handed over to the police for investigation and prosecution. Jungle justice is not the solution to crimes and criminality in Ikorodu areas.
“Mob action on suspected criminals is an uncivilised way of handling a criminal. I therefore, appeal that such action should stop. The police in Lagos are doing well and they have all it takes to handle the situation.
“All they need is information. That is the reason for this meeting. Badoo boys are human beings, they live with us; people must say what they know about them.
“I want all private security organisations to register with LNSC so that we can work together,“ he urged.
Traditional rulers, religious leaders, transporters, market people, youths, the military, paramilitary agencies and private security organisations participated at the meeting.
The traditional ruler of Imota, Oba Mudasiru Agoro, who spoke on behalf of traditional rulers urged security agencies, particularly the police to post their intelligence officers to the grassroots to get information.
He also urged security agencies to share information, while urging the communities to know the people around them.
Other speakers at the meeting agreed to whatever measure the government and security agencies were taking in addressing the badoo menace.
More than six persons, suspected to be member of badoo cult has been killed by mob in Ikorodu area in the last two months while more than 200 suspected badoos cultists had been arrested in different parts of Ikorodu and its environs after their killings of some innocent persons.
