Insecurity: IGP Tightens Security On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has directed an immediate restructuring of the security infrastructure on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in order to provide for an adequate deployment of officers and assets to ensure the protection of lives and property along the expressway and prevent kidnappings and other obscene incidents.

This is “consequent to the reports of the security situation on the Expressway from the Commissioners of Police in charge of Lagos, Ogun, and Oyo State Commands,” according to Force Public Relations Officer CSP Muyiwa Adejobi.

“The IGP similarly emphasized that the Police Authority is not insensitive to the prevailing security challenges on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, but has rather been engaged with charting a path towards decimating the security issue and strategically eliminating the threats along the expressway.

“Hence the on-the-spot assessment of the black spots along the way by the CPs Ogun and Oyo on the directives of the IGP for enhanced safeguard of the expressway.

“The IGP therefore, pledges adequate operational support in form of technology-based and tactical operational assets for the Commissioners of Police in charge of Lagos, Ogun, and Oyo, and Heads of tactical operational units in the area to combat the current trend of crimes and criminality on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.

“In the same vein, the Inspector-General of Police has therefore called on well-meaning Nigerians, particularly road users, hunters, community leaders, and other stakeholders who ply the route to constantly expose known criminals who terrorize innocent Nigerians along the route and within adjoining communities to the Police and other security agencies for immediate arrest and prosecution.”

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Recall, on Tuesday, November 9 2022, motorists traveling on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway reportedly came under attack by gunmen wearing military uniforms.

Before the Sagamu Interchange, the suspected gunmen stormed the road from the bush and began firing sporadically at drivers of the 18-passenger interstate bus. They were traveling to Lagos.

The victim who wished to remain anonymous said, “We (passengers) were only lucky to escape the shooters but several of us have been injured by the gunfire and our bus has been seriously damaged also.”

I thought I was dead after being shot by them, the man who survived bullet wounds says in another video.

“They faced our vehicle shooting at us, we all lay down except the driver who was the target. They thought we were all dead and retreated into the bush.

“The joint patrol team of police officers from Ogun and Oyo states arrived at the scene later.