LAGOS POLICE LAUNCH INVESTIGATION AS JEWELLER ACCUSES ITS OFFICERS OF HARASSMENT. (PHOTO).
Lagos police launch investigation as jeweller accuses its officers of harassment The Lagos State Police Command said it has commenced an investigation into a viral video of a jeweller accusing some policemen in the Festac area of the state of harassing him. The command disclosed this in an X post on Saturday. The video, which circulated on X on Saturday morning, shows the businessman engaged in a struggle with some policemen. Later in the video, the businessman could be seen with a bloody face after allegedly sustaining a cut beside his right eye during the struggle with the police officers, The jeweller later explained that the policemen from the Festac Division had stopped him for a routine search. He said the officers accused him of peddling drugs after finding a scale on him. “I went to deliver a necklace to someone when police officers stopped and searched me in Festac, Lagos. They found nothing on me but saw the scale I use to measure gold and accused me of using...
Lagos State Government has paid the sum of four million Naira to one Mr Monday Imoni as compensation for his property that was demolished for planned road construction exercise embarked upon to create new access roads for motorists and pedestrians in Orelope area of Alimosho Local Government.The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure,Engineer Ganiyu Johnson presented the cheque to Mr Imoni,owner of the building located at 6,Fadahunsi Drive,Gbeleyi,Pipeline,at his Alaua office.The affected building was found within the Right of Way {ROW} thereby obstructing the on-going works for the rehabilitation/upgrading of Isiba Oluwo Street in Alimosho Local Government.While presenting the cheque to Monday Imoni in his office in the presence of his lawyer,Engr Ganiyu Johnson thanked Imoni for his understanding and love for the infrastructural development of the State and the spirit of love for others.Johnson therefore implored others whose property may fall withing the Right of Way of on-going projects in the State to emulate Imoni by not dragging the State to court thereby delaying infrastructural development projects that will be beneficial to the masses.Meanwhile,Monday Imoni who was accompanied by his lawyer to the presentation thanked the Stat Government for the gesture of compensation,saying if the State were to wield its total hammer on him through the extant laws,he would have been left with little option; he pledged that his unflinching support for the State government would remain for life.
4million,is it the cost of both house and land ?
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