Factional leader of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Gani Adams, has expressed his displeasure at the non recruitment of members of the Yoruba nationalist group in the recently launched Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps.
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The Lagos State Government had recruited about seven thousands people across the 57 LGA/LCDA in the state to assist the police and other security agencies to maintain law and order.
Gani, however, condemned the recruitment saying OPC members deserved to be part of the officers of the newly established security agency .
He added that most of those recruited by the State Government were members of All Progressive Congress, APC.
According to him, “Maybe you should go and ask Lagos State government why they established Neighbourhood Corps and recruited nothing less than 7,300 members to assist in terms of security and intelligence gathering in the state without consulting us or even asking us to give them 10 persons.
“In Lagos State today, about 70 to 80 percent of the streets are secured by OPC members as private guards. Even banks recruit OPC members and sew security uniforms for them in order to secure their banks. Why should Lagos State make that recruitment without injecting OPC members into it? Most of the people they recruited are members of their party who have no knowledge of security and who cannot confront ordinary machete, not to talk of gun.”
