Lagos police warn residents against child abuse

The Lagos State Police Command has warned the people of the state against perpetrating any act that is injurious to children and other vulnerable persons in the state.
The police said it had become imperative for all the citizens of the state to eschew acts intended to violate the rights of the child and other vulnerable persons in the society.
The state Police Public Relations officer, Superintendent Chike Oti, told our correspondent that the command was worried about the incessant abuse of children and women in the state inspite of the enactment of laws against such acts in the state.
Oti, however, said the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, had vowed to ensure that anyone caught in any act related to abuse of children would not be spared the wrath of the law.
Recall that recently the state police commissioner led a team of policemen to number 12 Baderin Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos, where they rescued an 11-year-old child locked up in a poorly ventilated apartment without food by her guardian, who had traveled for the Yuletide.
The attention of the Lagos police boss was drawn to the poor girl’s plight by neighbours.
At the scene, Imohimi, after assuring the child that he had come to help her, ordered that the iron burglar proof barricading the entrance to the living room be cut open by a welder.
In an emotion laden voice, he addressed members of the press and the crowd that gathered; urging everybody to be their brother’s keeper and to report any wrong observed in their vicinity to the
police.
The little girl identified as Precious Nwafor, who was brought all the way from Umunze in Orumba Local Government Area of Anambra State with a promise of better life in Lagos, was handed over to the Social Welfare Department of the Lagos State Government.
The police commissioner, however, directed the Divisional Police Officer of Makinde Police Division to arrest the guardian of the child for prosecution.