Weeks after many police stations were destroyed, the Inspector-General of Police Committee on EndSARS Protest Damage Assessment has said that many police officers in Lagos State are still missing and unaccounted for.

The committee, which was in Lagos to assess the extent of damage to police assets on Saturday, disclosed that the level of destruction suffered by the force would affect the quality of policing and security in the state.

The chairman of the 10-man committee, Yaro Abutu, a Commissioner of Police, told our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday that many policemen had no stations to resume to, while other cops no longer had uniforms.

He explained that his committee, which was heading for Ogun State in continuation of its assessment, had yet to quantify the losses suffered by the Lagos State Police Command.

Abutu said, “Do you know that at some of the stations, we cannot account for the policemen yet because when the mob came, some (cops) were killed and taken away, some were chased into the bush and the waterways. So, these are the kind of things we are still working on.
“We are still collating the number of destroyed police patrol vehicles, exhibits vehicles, personal vehicles and those belonging to the members of the public parked at the stations.

“From the damage recorded in terms of police patrol vans, it has a heavy impact on the quality and availability of patrol services in Lagos for the next few months, even till next year; it is massive. And to compound it, the patrol vans are brand new.”

The CP explained that police officers whose stations were razed were severely limited by the lack of offices from where they could carry out their operations.

“They (policemen) are hanging around their stations like IDPs (internally displaced persons). Not only were the stations burnt, their uniforms were also burnt. Because of the cosmopolitan and congested nature of Lagos, most policemen keep their uniforms in their offices. A good number of them hardly go back home until the weekend.”

Abutu appealed to those with stolen police firearms to return them.

Ogun police deny abandoning duty

The team also on Sunday inspected police facilities damaged in Ogun State.

The Yaro-led team inspected Atan-Ota Police Division in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state, which was razed down by the arsonists after the Divisional Crime Officer in charge of the command, DSP Augustine Ogbeche, was murdered .

The team inspected the nearly-irreparable damage done to structure and the eight vehicles vandalised.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, described the attacks as one of the hazards of the police duty.

“We are back on our duty. It is not possible for us to expose members of the public to insecurity. Despite what happened, police are back on duty and members of the communities are making efforts to make sure that they put all the facilities that were damaged in place. We are back on duty. Our men are not off the road; far from it.”

‘Protect lives of policemen under you’

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone-13, Ukpo, Anambra State, Danmallam Mohammed, has charged Commissioners of Police in charge of Anambra and Enugu states to protect the lives of police personnel and other citizens under their commands.

Scores of police personnel were killed in the area during the #EndSARS protests, hijacked by hoodlums.

In a statement on Sunday by the Zonal Public Relations Officer, Zone 13, Ukpo, Anambra State, Nkeiruka Nwode, the AIG tasked CPs in the zone to repel violent attacks in their commands with reasonable and lawful force.

The statement reads in part, “The AIG, Danmallam Mohammed, has charged Commissioners of Police in charge of Anambra and Enugu respectively to deploy every lawful force to protect lives and property of citizens, police and government property, officers of other law enforcement agencies and their families from malicious attacks from persons, groups who might be operating under any guise and circumstances.

“The AIG stressed that Zone 13 won’t tolerate a repeat of the outing that erupted in the past where police officers under the zone suffered fatal attacks, stations burnt and patrol vehicles set ablaze.”

Source:
https://m.punchng.com/Featured/Many-policemen-still-missing-unaccounted-for-Police-panel

Sad indeed
I have never seen the police so humbled

Hmmmm

Even Lai Muhammed won't believe this lie. the police wants to make it look like they are the victims

After all this the police will start giving the common man a little bit of respect instead of maltreating and killing just because they're licensed to carry guns.

This bad. Because not all police are evil

Many #endsars protesters still missing and unaccounted for.

when the hunter becomes the hunted. A harvest from many decades of corruption & oppression of the citizens... cry me a river.. simply feel d brunt & learn ur lessons.

The police must have a human face this time. When a poor man suffers injustice, instead of reporting to the police he leaves to God because he knows that the police station is a place for extortion not a place to get justice.

The law says 'Bail is free', yet the police ask for an arm and a leg to bail detainees even those on alleged misdemeanors.

Nigerians will be watching to learn if the roads, highways and police stations will remain extortion centers. We will find out if police have learnt anything from this protest.

Another area I want protesters to focus is the courts, the Lawyers and Judges and also corrupt and are very skilled at delaying Justice while milking their clients and litigants. Many justices will simply take money and give black market judgements and kangaroo court orders.

If you are charged to court, the complainant disappears from court, yet the magistrate keeps adjourning the matter for donkey years, while the accused keep wasting money on court appearance and brief filing fees. The judiciary is rotten and must be sanitized.

An investigative journalist once did an investigative research and exposé of the corrupt police, judiciary and prison system, where together with his colleagues, he was falsely of stealing a car and got himself into police net just to test the system. He went in there with a hidden camera and spent weeks from police net to prison just to go through the criminal justice system and test it documentarily.

No investigation whatsoever was done by the police, the magistrate didn't waste time in slamming huge impossible bail on him. He found himself in prison where the prison officials feed fat on Awaiting trial detainees with many equally innocent inmates wasting away therein. When they found out he was a journalist out to expose the rot in prison, they started asking for his arrest for 'spying' on them. That matter has now been swept under the carpet. Tufiakwa!
This country is dead and wasted.

Victims of police brutality are also not accounted for so it’s cool I guess.

The #Endsar has exposed our weak security architecture. A weak and demoralized police force is like an impotent joystick, it will take alot of massaging for it to stand and function properly.

Watch out for part2...

Have always maintained that the police dont know how many they are.

Not even anyone you see with policemen with gun is a policeman.

Police police police

Are the citizens missing not Nigerians.

Useless police.

iko123:
The #Endsar has exposed our weak security architecture. A weak and demoralized police force is like an impotent joystick, it will take alot of massaging for it to stand and function properly.

You are......