CP urges students to shun violence.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Police, Yakubu Alkali has cautioned secondary schools students to avoid breaking their parents’ rules and shun violence because of its long term consequences.
Alkali said this at the “Save A Life Project”organised by the State Senior High School, Ikeja’s, Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability and Professionalism Africa chapter.
The commissioner who was represented by the Chief Superintendent of Police, Administration,CSP Adaku Uche-Anya said lawlessness begins from the homes.
He said,if students were not cautious to learn obedience and to be law-abiding at home, they most likely grow up becoming notorious criminals and lawbreakers in larger society.
He also urged Commercial Motorcyclists who were at the programme to be law-abiding and follow road rules to ensure safety of their lives and those of their passengers.
The State Traffic Officer, Margaret Ekpo who was in the Commissioner’s entourage also urged the students to always go close to traffic officers whenever they want to cross at a busy road in order to get assistance.
Ekpo also called on the state government to erect a pedestrian bridge at the PWD axis of the Agege Motor road to relieve the traffic officers and road users the stress they pass through trying to cross or be helped to cross.
She lamented that most Lagos road users are not patient with road traffic officers and resort to attacking many of them at this spot when asked to stop for students to pass.
She stated further that, the number of offices around the place was increasing, thus increasing the number of road users on that axis and the time it takes to cross many people in batches.
She however commended the student’s initiative in organising a programme that would enlighten road users on rules that ensures safety on the roads.
Principal of the school, Oluwafemi Bakare said that the “Save A Life Project 2” programme was the outcome of the first successful project during which students painted the PWD Zebra Crossing and cleaned the Mopol 20 barracks in Ikeja in 2010.
He said the second phase of the project was targeted at sensitizing Commercial Motorcyclists on road safety measures and the use of First Aid and Sick Bays in schools and other institutions.
According to Bakare, the LEAP Africa project has transformed the moral lives of their students while expanding their initiatives in a 3-year curriculum on leadership ethics, Accountability and Civic responsibility.
He thanked the Commissioner, Lagos State Police Command for sponsoring the programme which he said received responses from LASTMA and LASUTH.
Also speaking at the event on the need for blood donation, a LASUTH lecturer, Mrs Alege Taiwo said that owing to many diseases which deplete people’s blood reserves, healthy citizens should donate blood to help their fellow’s live.
She said much blood or less blood in the body would cause the body to become sickly, adding that people should donate blood to live healthy lives.
Taiwo noted that the benefits of blood donation include production of healthy fresh blood and sound health for the blood donor while enjoining people to donate blood to save lives.
Commercial Motorcyclists spokesmen, Innocent Odinaka decried the attitude of Police and LASTMA officials who they say extort their members in the name of road rules enforcement.
They pleaded with the Police Commissioner to ensure they are treated like human beings, adding that most of the people that disobey the traffic rule are uniformed men who engaged in commercial motorcycle transportation.
At the end of the programme, over 300 students were given certificates for participation in the project.
Alkali said this at the “Save A Life Project”organised by the State Senior High School, Ikeja’s, Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability and Professionalism Africa chapter.
The commissioner who was represented by the Chief Superintendent of Police, Administration,CSP Adaku Uche-Anya said lawlessness begins from the homes.
He said,if students were not cautious to learn obedience and to be law-abiding at home, they most likely grow up becoming notorious criminals and lawbreakers in larger society.
He also urged Commercial Motorcyclists who were at the programme to be law-abiding and follow road rules to ensure safety of their lives and those of their passengers.
The State Traffic Officer, Margaret Ekpo who was in the Commissioner’s entourage also urged the students to always go close to traffic officers whenever they want to cross at a busy road in order to get assistance.
Ekpo also called on the state government to erect a pedestrian bridge at the PWD axis of the Agege Motor road to relieve the traffic officers and road users the stress they pass through trying to cross or be helped to cross.
She lamented that most Lagos road users are not patient with road traffic officers and resort to attacking many of them at this spot when asked to stop for students to pass.
She stated further that, the number of offices around the place was increasing, thus increasing the number of road users on that axis and the time it takes to cross many people in batches.
She however commended the student’s initiative in organising a programme that would enlighten road users on rules that ensures safety on the roads.
Principal of the school, Oluwafemi Bakare said that the “Save A Life Project 2” programme was the outcome of the first successful project during which students painted the PWD Zebra Crossing and cleaned the Mopol 20 barracks in Ikeja in 2010.
He said the second phase of the project was targeted at sensitizing Commercial Motorcyclists on road safety measures and the use of First Aid and Sick Bays in schools and other institutions.
According to Bakare, the LEAP Africa project has transformed the moral lives of their students while expanding their initiatives in a 3-year curriculum on leadership ethics, Accountability and Civic responsibility.
He thanked the Commissioner, Lagos State Police Command for sponsoring the programme which he said received responses from LASTMA and LASUTH.
Also speaking at the event on the need for blood donation, a LASUTH lecturer, Mrs Alege Taiwo said that owing to many diseases which deplete people’s blood reserves, healthy citizens should donate blood to help their fellow’s live.
She said much blood or less blood in the body would cause the body to become sickly, adding that people should donate blood to live healthy lives.
Taiwo noted that the benefits of blood donation include production of healthy fresh blood and sound health for the blood donor while enjoining people to donate blood to save lives.
Commercial Motorcyclists spokesmen, Innocent Odinaka decried the attitude of Police and LASTMA officials who they say extort their members in the name of road rules enforcement.
They pleaded with the Police Commissioner to ensure they are treated like human beings, adding that most of the people that disobey the traffic rule are uniformed men who engaged in commercial motorcycle transportation.
At the end of the programme, over 300 students were given certificates for participation in the project.
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