Unknown persons suspected to be hoodlums are currently attacking facilities at the mile 12 in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State.
In a video posted by a Nigerian comedian and movie star, Ayodeji Richard Makun popularly known as A.Y. on his verified Facebook page, residents were seen fleeing for their lives.
However, when contacted, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CAP Muyiwa Adejobi, he said he was not aware.
The joint meeting of Service Chiefs with the Senators is holding behind close-doors.
The Service Chiefs and other top security agents including the Acting Inspector General of Police, are expecting to discuss in details challenges faced by the forces in tackling insecurity in Nigeria.
Before the meeting was declared close-doors, Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan assured the guests to the Senate Chambers of their readiness to look into their challenges.
In his address, he said: “You recall our resolution to invite them for briefing on security situation in our dear country.
“On behalf of all of us Senators, I want to welcome this team and let me quickly assure all of you that indeed this Senate or the entire National Assembly is and will remain a partner in progress with you.
“On behalf of my colleagues, I want to commend our armed forces and other security agencies for fighting the myriad of security challenges across the country.
“In the process, some have given up their lives.
“We appreciate what you are doing because we know that you are doing your best with what you have at hand.
“I want to assure you and everyone that the challenges we face are taken seriously and extremely by the Parliament.
“Hardly a day passes without this Senate discussing one security incident or the other. And it has been so for many years, not only this session.
“Once again, I welcome you and trust us with what you think will help us as a parliament to help the cause of Armed forces and other security agencies to perform better because you haven’t achieved the optimum and I can attribute that to inadequate resources.
“We pray that at the end of this interaction, we will see better ways and means of providing the necessary provision of resources to enable our armed forces continue with national case to provide national security.
“We need to protect the lives and property of citizens to stabilise our environment for economy to receive better investments for this country; to be a hub for investments that will provide employment opportunities to our teeming youths. Thank you very much.”
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Properties of 685 traders were reportedly destroyed in the Katsina Central Market fire incident, the committee chair report says.
The Chairman, Administrative Committee for the Investigation of the Fire Disaster, Alhaji Tasiu Dandagoro, disclosed the information while handing the committee’s report to Governor Bello Masari Wednesday in Katsina.
“The committee identified 685 victims as directly affected, 605 shops destroyed, out of which, 59 traders were on attachment, and 21 others had their properties looted,” the committee chairman said.
“Property destroyed by the inferno was estimated at about N902.1 million, excluding the cost of the burnt down structures,” he said.
Dandagoro attributed poor and rampant electricity connections to be among the likely causes of the inferno.
He revealed that they discovered in the course of their investigation that the market had neither functional fire fighting equipment nor boreholes, which could have assisted in putting up the fire first-hand.
On reconstructing the market, the committee advised the Masari-led government to construct a single floor of 460 shops or on the alternative a two block of storey buildings with over 700 shop capacity.
Dandogoro further advised the Masari-led government to reconstruct the structures directly; or use either the “Build, Operate and Transfer system” or utilise a Public-Private-Partnership strategy.
He equally called on the government to use the original market plan, which did not make provision for temporary shops in the market.
However, the committee chairman expressed his displeasure at the level of insincerity displayed by some traders during the investigation.
This, he said necessitated the involvement of opinion leaders to analyse information provided by such traders.
Governor Masari, while responding to the committee’s finding, thanked its members for serving the state in that capacity.
He assured them that all and sundry would contribute in the restoration of the market, particularly civil servants.
“My suggestion is that civil servants will also contribute in the reconstruction of the market, I have already put them on alert, because in Katsina State, civil servants and public office holders consume more than 80 per cent of the resources,” Masari said.
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