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Children of slain policemen to get scholarship as officers get life insurance

The Lagos State Government has directed the State Scholarship Board to award scholarship up to the university level to the children of slain officers in…

The Lagos State Government has directed the State Scholarship Board to award scholarship up to the university level to the children of slain officers in the recent EndSARS violence in the state.

Police officers serving in Lagos would also get life insurance from the state government.

This followed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s visit to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu on Wednesday at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja where he went to boost the morale of officers who had demoralised by events of the past week when officers and their stations were targeted by hoodlums.

Odumosu told the governor during the visit that six police officers were lynched by hoodlums during the unrest, 28 police stations and posts were razed, 18 police stations and posts were vandalised, 36 personnel critically injured, 58 operational vehicles were torched with 13 others vandalised.

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