FEATURES: RRS- Running for Cover?

RRS motorcycle parked at Mile 2

Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that the Rapid Response Squad (RSS) in Lagos State stationed run-down patrol motorcycles without its officers around them in strategic parts of the state, but police authorities claim that they are good and that its men are merely running for cover

"Right at a point where a Rapid Response Squad (RRS) motorbike was stationed, I was robbed at night and yet I found no help, apparently because the bike was just stationed there as a fright without any police officer around and robbers are aware of those gaps and they are taking the advantage to dispossess people of their valuables even right at the place where you find such bikes. It is annoying."

EXCLUSIVE: Lagos Commissioner for Special Duties Chase NEMA Personnel from Collapsed Building Site

WALE AHMED

Drama ensued today at the scene of the building collapse in Ishaga, Surulere, Lagos, which killed five people including a 13year old bread seller, when the commissioner for special duties Wale Ahmed, stormed the scene for an on-the-spot assessment and allegedly asked the personnel of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to leave the rescue operations for the primary responders which are the state Emergency Committee. 

This face- off is coming at the heels of yet another fracas between the Commander RRS,  CSP Akeem Odumosu and NEMA spokesperson, Farinloye, thereby giving the illusion that the agency are not welcome in emergency situations.

EXCLUSIVE: RRS Commander Arrests NEMA Spokesperson

Pandemonium erupted at the scene of the building collapse at Ebute Meta area of Lagos on Thursday, when policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on the orders of their Commander, Akeem Odumosu, a Chief Superintendent of Police, arrested the Spokesperson, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), South-west, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye.

It was gathered that the policemen had manhandled and then bundled Farinloye into one of the squad patrol vehicles, which  almost marred the rescue operation as other officials of the agency threatened to abandon the rescue operation.