The Lagos State Director of the State Security Service, Ben Olayi, has warned Nigerians to be sensitive to happenings around them especially at this period serious security challenges in the country.
Olayi disclosed that most of crimes against people in the country have been traced to insider collaboration like house-helps.
He stressed that these house-helps give out information to robbers and kidnappers.
He also warned Nigerians against allowing water vendors to take water into their houses as it affords some of them the opportunity to understand their houses for criminal activities.
Olayi further disclosed that the reason Boko Haram sect was after security agents and agencies is because their financiers have placed a price tag on such targets.
According to the Director, the Boko Haram members were paid depending on which security agent they could attack and possibly kill.
He said the police and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps had lesser price tag on them adding that the security agents were rated according to importance.
Olayi further hinted that the sect was attacking media houses because the group saw them as a threat to their activities.
He said it was either the group thinks that they are being misrepresented by the media to the public or that the media are not supportive of their struggle.
While urging Lagosians to be very vigilant, he urged the media in the state and country to collaborate with security agencies in this regard.
He also commended the Lagos State Government for its maintenance of the Security Trust Fund, calling the state a model and stressing that this was why crime rate has reduced in the State.
Olayi also denied the belief that the SSS was more interested in protecting political office holders, claiming that the agency was created to protect the people of the country even though it also protect some people within the country and those visiting the country.
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