I spent N15bn on security in one year – Ambode

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has said his administration spent over N15bn in 2016 to expand security.

Ambode, who talked at a dinner held at the Lagos House in Ikeja, to pay tribute to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, who was on a two-day working visit to the state, said his administration was focused on guaranteeing security of lives and properties.

Ambode credited the improvement to the maintainability of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, a layout, he said championed financing of security organizations to do viable policing over the state.

"Like the Inspector General of Police stated, the layout we are utilizing to run the
security trust finance is deserving of imitating and he has additionally asserted that they might want to recreate it in different parts of the nation and furthermore for men of the Nigeria Police Force," the representative was cited as saying in an announcement issued on Saturday by his Chief Press Secretary, Habib Aruna.

Prescribing the LSSTF model to different states, Ambode uncovered that out of the N15bn spent on security a year ago, the private division contributed over N5bn.

The senator especially lauded the endeavors of a previous Inspector General of Police, Musiliu Smith, who was the pioneer executive of the LSSTF, calling attention to that the model he midwifed in 2007 changed the substance of security in the state.

Focusing on that security stays key to the advancement of the country's economy, Ambode guaranteed to continue supporting the police.

Prior, the police supervisor noticed that in spite of the cosmopolitan idea of Lagos that makes policing troublesome, cops presented on Lagos were getting a charge out of the best as far as hardware and welfare.

In the interim, a security master, Col. Gabriel Ajayi (retd.), has approached the Federal Government to embark on weapons purchase again from groups and people that are in control of unlawful arms.

He noticed that any shriek blowing strategy on unlawful ownership of weapons would not add up to anything.

As indicated by Ajayi, the police should be furnished with arms identifiers and that illicit weapons recouped ought to be decimated.

"The police are here and there liable of re-pitching guns to lawbreakers. In this manner, the weapons recouped from the individuals who wrongfully have such ought not be kept in police care. The weapons ought to be wrecked," he said.