Lagos State recorded about 246 murder cases between December 2015 and November 30, 2016, the state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni has said.
The state also recorded 486 armed robbery cases, with 180 domestic and sexual violence cases reported to the police and 542 vehicles stolen in the past 12 months.
Owoseni disclosed these figures at the 10th yearly Town hall meeting in Lagos yesterday, jointly organised by the State Security Trust Fund, The Guardian and others. The theme was “Optimising Security Funding in a Recession.”The event, which was attended by traditional rulers, politicians and captains of industries, including former managing director of Zenith Bank Plc, Jim Ovia and the Publisher of The Guardian Newspapers, Lady Maiden Alex-Ibru, the CP said the murder cases were higher compared with that of the previous year.
According to him, of the 246 cases of murder recorded, cultism, gangster violence, youths restiveness and street fights among youths, with ages between 10-14 years ranked highest.
He also disclosed that the menace was most prevalent in areas within Ijede, Morogbo and Surulere Police Area Commands respectively, though it cut across the three senatorial districts of the state.
According to Owoseni, while 486 armed robbery suspects were arrested, 46 of them were killed during confrontation with the police, just as 38 suspected kidnappers were arrested and 181 other suspects were nabbed in connection with cultism and street fights.
“Areas within Ogba Area Police Command accounted for the highest number. 51 cases of kidnapping were recorded, with Ijede Police Area Command accounting for the highest number of 47 per cent. They may not be unconnected with the physical and cultural environment of the area,” he added.
The police chief challenged parents and elders in Lagos to rise up to the occasion to help the security in the state by looking after the young people.

According to him, there were youths all over the place but the most challenging part is that when their parents were contacted in efforts to rehabilitate them, they claimed they did not know when their children left home.
http://www.akelicious.com/2016/12/just-in-1yearlagos-records-246-murder.html#more

This is Unbelievable.........




I mean this is a sophisticated state with peace loving people.


I reject this report on behalf of Lagos state.


It is unacceptable.

What a record

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boiz are not smiling

hmm, and these are result of this recession o. Now that MMM has crashed, Na only God go save us o.

Nigerian cities are fast becoming "Sin City" apc is SHAME.

246 Murder and 486 arm robbery cases and still counting.

Lagos state (not GTA) crime city

Hmmmm God protect us.

okkkk ooooo we done hear

these are just reported figures...what of the ones that go unreported?? smh[color=#990000][/color]

Lagos needs to spend more on security.. although they are trying

Afonjaaaaaaas

This is actually serious, even some parents encourage their children on crime. Its only God that can save us

multiply10

486 "REPORTED" armed robbery cases.

No smoke without fire.
Buhari1's regime is primarily responsible and not the parents.
Shamelessly shameful.

No wonder shetima said n-easth is safer than lagoon

How many people will remain with this numbers of murder

The report says 486 armed robbery cases were reported.

What this means is that an average of 1.3 armed robbery operations took place daily in the entire lagos state, consisting of over 15million people.

If not for the fact that unreported cases are usually more, I would have given kudos to lagos state for having such low crime (armed robbery) rate.

But the source of the news though... looks suspicious itself.

Afonjas at work currently .... No trespassing, distraction or disturbance

reduced.

The unrecorded ones nko.....God help us.

Lynching alone is more than that number



Shows we have very poor statistics

246 deaths comon.... Only a naive person wud believe such

Region leaver

quote author=KidsNEXTdoor post=51913899]Afonjaaaaaaas [/quote.]


Lagos is no mans land, your tribalistic post just shows your level of reasoning.

These are just reported cases.

At least Lagos has records... that's the first step in solving a problem.. pls show us the records of ur own state...


I am sure you are from the cursed and forgotten region....

Tallesty1:
This is Unbelievable.........




I mean this is a sophisticated state with peace loving people.


I reject this report on behalf of Lagos state.


It is unacceptable.

Exactly, because we keep records in Lagos state, we can then move forward to make these kinds of crimes as low as possible.

teamchocolate:
At least Lagos has records... that's the first step in solving a problem.. pls show us the records of ur own state...


I am sure you are from the cursed and forgotten region....

LAGOS, The city of Excellence Crime.