After several years of gangsters’
siege in Mushin, Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, has restored peace to
the beleaguered community, an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Mr Dawodu
Olatunji, said yesterday.
“For two months now, peace has
returned to Mushin. Thanks to our governor, who picked up the gang leaders and
their boys disappeared. “Mushin is now safe, no longer a hotbed of criminality.
The hoodlums are killing themselves and not hoodlums versus the people,” he
said.
Olatunji, a Mushin chairmanship
aspirant for the July council polls, said:“We are grateful to the governor for
his intervention; the criminals are not from Mushin, but from other parts of
the state.
“I am born and bred in Mushin and
like others, we grew up to imbibe some virtues to become responsible citizens.
Not everybody in Mushin are criminals.”
He noted that gangsterism, not
robberies had reigned in the area, saying “ the supremacy fight between the
gangs had always unleashed a reign of terror on Mushin.”
Olatunji, an Area Pastor of the
Redeemed Christian Church of God, also acknowledged the efforts of an ethnic
militia , Oodu’a Peoples Congress, OPC, in helping to rout armed robberies
several years ago in the area.
He, however, blamed politicians for
allegedly raising armed gangs for elections and advised youths to reject guns
and banditry and go for empowerment and jobs.
The Business Administration graduate
and erstwhile South-West spokesman of Nigerian students, said:“Youth
empowerment is a must for local and state governments because the youths reside
in their council areas and states.
“Cottage industries as well as small
and medium enterprises to produce school uniforms, shoes and exercise books etc
should be established for the youths after their training.”
Source: Vanguard News
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