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By Modupe Shodeinde
The Lagos State Government has offered to compensate police officers and the families of slained policemen who were killed during the violence that came after the #EndSARS protest.
The Governor of the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said he had ordered the State Scholarship Board to award scholarship to children of the slained police officers and also offered to compensate the families.
The Governor also said that police officers working in Lagos would get life insurance from the state government.
Sanwo-Olu who made this known during a visit to the command headquarters at Ikeja stated that plans were being made to rebuild burnt police station and replace police vehicles destroyed during the chaos.
According to him, these plans were made to boost the morale of policemen after the mayhem in the state which according to a statement led to six police officers being lynched, 36 critically injured and 71 police vehicles burnt.
The governor said, “The Commissioner of Police has come forward with a number of requests, which we will need to address to boost the morale of officers after last week’s event. As your governor,
I have come here to take full responsibility for the loss you have suffered in terms of logistics. From tomorrow (Thursday), we will start implementing these requests.
“Through the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, we will be replacing the police operational vehicles burnt in the violence. We have bigger plans for all the police stations burnt down. We will look for the funds and build befitting stations that will set the standard of what police stations should be.
“The most important request is to offer scholarships to the children of officers that died. I have directed the Lagos State Scholarship Board under the Special Adviser on Education to immediately award scholarships to the children of the slain officers.”
