A yet to be identified Chief Superintendent of Police has openly defied the order of the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to vacate the Magodo Phase 2 Estate area of the state today, January 4.
The residents of the estate had taken to the street on Tuesday morning, January 4, to protest the continuous presence of policemen in the estate. A few weeks ago, police officers numbering about 50 stormed the estate in the company of some persons believed to be landgrabbers to demolish the houses. They say they were acting on a court order obtained from the Supreme court. They were however stopped but they have since laid siege in the estate.
On Tuesday afternoon, Governor Sanwo-Olu led some members of his cabinet to the estate to speak with the protesting residents. While at the estate, the governor asked the police officers led by a CSP to vacate the estate but the CSP however told the governor that he and his armed colleagues were at the estate on the orders of the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba; as well as the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN).
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