Ambode restores peace to Mushin, says APC chieftain
After several years of gangsters’ siege in Mushin, Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, has restored peace to the beleaguered community, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Mr. Dawodu Olatunji, said on Sunday.
“For two months now, peace has returned to Mushin. Thanks to our governor, who picked up the gang leaders and their boys disappeared.
“Mushin is now safe, no longer a hotbed of criminality. The hoodlums are killing themselves and not hoodlums versus the people,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Olatunji, a Mushin chairmanship aspirant for the July council polls, said: “We are grateful to the governor for his intervention; the criminals are not from Mushin, but from other parts of the state.
“I was born and bred in Mushin and like others, we grew up to imbibe some virtues to become responsible citizens. Not everybody in Mushin is a criminal.”
He noted that gangsterism, not robberies, had reigned in the area, saying that “the supremacy fight between the gangs had always unleashed a reign of terror on Mushin.”
Olatunji, an Area Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, also acknowledged the efforts of an ethnic militia – Odu’a People’s Congress (OPC) – in helping to rout armed robberies several years ago in the area.
