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Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday tasked the Ministry of Information and Strategy to enlighten the public against carrying out jungle justice in the state.
The house took the position following a motion moved by Mrs Funmilayo Tejuosho, (APC-Mushin I), under matters of urgent public importance.
Tejuosho said that she received a message recently indicating that two women and one man were stripped naked over a fraud-related case.
The lawmaker said the incident was said to have occurred at Shonibare Street in Mushin area of Lagos on Sunday.
“I think the house should condemn this criminal act; no person should take laws into his hands. The house has passed a law on criminal justice,” she said.
She urged the police to live up to its responsibilities by protecting the lives and property of the citizens.
Mr Taiwo Kolawole, the Deputy Speaker, said that there was the need for community policing.
“If there is community police in the society there would not be such criminal acts in the society," he said.
Kolawole also said that the establishment of state police would solve the atrocities perpetrated by the some hoodlums in the society.
The Speaker, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, advised the committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Public Petitions to look into the relevant sections of the criminal justice law with a view to suggesting areas of amendment.
Ikuforiji said that such amendment would make the law more effective.
He also tasked the Ministry of Information and Strategy to embark on public sensitisation against public assault and jungle justice.
The house took the position following a motion moved by Mrs Funmilayo Tejuosho, (APC-Mushin I), under matters of urgent public importance.
Tejuosho said that she received a message recently indicating that two women and one man were stripped naked over a fraud-related case.
The lawmaker said the incident was said to have occurred at Shonibare Street in Mushin area of Lagos on Sunday.
“I think the house should condemn this criminal act; no person should take laws into his hands. The house has passed a law on criminal justice,” she said.
She urged the police to live up to its responsibilities by protecting the lives and property of the citizens.
Mr Taiwo Kolawole, the Deputy Speaker, said that there was the need for community policing.
“If there is community police in the society there would not be such criminal acts in the society," he said.
Kolawole also said that the establishment of state police would solve the atrocities perpetrated by the some hoodlums in the society.
The Speaker, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, advised the committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Public Petitions to look into the relevant sections of the criminal justice law with a view to suggesting areas of amendment.
Ikuforiji said that such amendment would make the law more effective.
He also tasked the Ministry of Information and Strategy to embark on public sensitisation against public assault and jungle justice.
