The
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency has warned miscreants who are
in the habit of attacking emergency responders, inflicting injuries on
them and destroying government vehicles during emergency situations to
desist from such heinous acts. The General Manager, Lagos State
Emergency Management Agency, Adesina Tiamiyu gave the warning today at
the Secretariat, Ikeja following the recent grievous attacks on the
Agency’s operatives at Obanikoro and Ejigbo area of the State, noting
that the perpetrators of the dastardly act would be fished out and
prosecuted appropriately. He explained that such act is mostly
perpetrated by some unscrupulous elements who do not have any role to
play at the scene of the incident, but rather create pandemonium thereby
impeding the smooth operation of the emergency officers and putting
their lives at risk by inflicting injuries on them. According to him,
“Emergency workers should be seen as your friends coming to give help to
people in distress as well as salvage property during emergency
situations such as road traffic accident, fire outbreak and so on; as
such they should be allowed to carry out their assigned duties without
any hindrance to avoid unnecessary loss of lives and
properties”. Tiamiyu noted that the present administration has invested
heavily in all emergency/security operatives towards prompt and adequate
intervention to all emergency incidents in the State, stressing that
the Agency has been decentralised from the Command and Control Centre,
Alausa, Ikeja to other parts of the State such as Lekki by Admiralty
Way; Onipanu on Ikorodu Road and Cappa Dispatch Centre, Oshodi. While
urging Lagosians who utilise the emergency toll-free line 112/767 for
reporting an emergency situation, he implored motorists especially
commercial bus drivers to always ensure they give right of way to all
emergency vehicles heading towards emergency locations.LASEMA warns miscreants in Lagos against attack of emergency workers
The
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency has warned miscreants who are
in the habit of attacking emergency responders, inflicting injuries on
them and destroying government vehicles during emergency situations to
desist from such heinous acts. The General Manager, Lagos State
Emergency Management Agency, Adesina Tiamiyu gave the warning today at
the Secretariat, Ikeja following the recent grievous attacks on the
Agency’s operatives at Obanikoro and Ejigbo area of the State, noting
that the perpetrators of the dastardly act would be fished out and
prosecuted appropriately. He explained that such act is mostly
perpetrated by some unscrupulous elements who do not have any role to
play at the scene of the incident, but rather create pandemonium thereby
impeding the smooth operation of the emergency officers and putting
their lives at risk by inflicting injuries on them. According to him,
“Emergency workers should be seen as your friends coming to give help to
people in distress as well as salvage property during emergency
situations such as road traffic accident, fire outbreak and so on; as
such they should be allowed to carry out their assigned duties without
any hindrance to avoid unnecessary loss of lives and
properties”. Tiamiyu noted that the present administration has invested
heavily in all emergency/security operatives towards prompt and adequate
intervention to all emergency incidents in the State, stressing that
the Agency has been decentralised from the Command and Control Centre,
Alausa, Ikeja to other parts of the State such as Lekki by Admiralty
Way; Onipanu on Ikorodu Road and Cappa Dispatch Centre, Oshodi. While
urging Lagosians who utilise the emergency toll-free line 112/767 for
reporting an emergency situation, he implored motorists especially
commercial bus drivers to always ensure they give right of way to all
emergency vehicles heading towards emergency locations.
