{"id":3081,"date":"2023-09-11T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2023-09-11T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:52:31","slug":"lagos-chiefs-expresses-concern-about-traffic-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/lagos-chiefs-expresses-concern-about-traffic-robberies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos chiefs expresses concern about traffic robberies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u2022<i>Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>The Association of Lagos Titled Chiefs, a non-political association of honorary chiefs and prominent members of the Lagos community, who have served the state and the nation meritoriously, has expressed concern about the increase in cases of attacks by traffic robbers in some parts of Lagos, especially at the traffic light junctions on Lagos Island.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0The association, in a statement by the General Secretary, Olawumi Gasper, made available to reporters hailed the launch of a special operation code-named: \u2018Operation Flush\u2019, to curb the high rate of traffic robberies in the Lagos metropolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0It lamented increased rate of traffic robberies caused by gridlock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The body pledged to support Lagos State Police Command for a safer state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It lauded the police for efforts to reduce crime by introducing \u2018Operation Flush.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The chiefs noted that security agents seemed to be helpless, as traffic robbers continued to have a field day even in broad daylight, leaving motorists and commuters with harrowing tales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The association urged Lagosians to support the police command by reporting traffic robberies and suspicious activities at the nearest station.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa. The Association of Lagos Titled Chiefs, a non-political association of honorary chiefs and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}