{"id":10725,"date":"2022-11-05T06:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T06:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10725"},"modified":"2022-11-05T06:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T06:29:40","slug":"lasg-compensate-families-of-slain-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10725","title":{"rendered":"LASG Pays N70m Compensation To Families Of Slain Police Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lagosstate.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lagos State Government<\/a> has disclosed that it has paid compensation of Seventy Million Naira to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">security officers<\/a> who died or got injured in the line of duty in the State since the inception of this administration in May 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10727\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0FE3A0B5-041D-4627-BC50-555759CFE896-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0FE3A0B5-041D-4627-BC50-555759CFE896-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0FE3A0B5-041D-4627-BC50-555759CFE896-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0FE3A0B5-041D-4627-BC50-555759CFE896-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0FE3A0B5-041D-4627-BC50-555759CFE896-75x75.jpeg 75w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0FE3A0B5-041D-4627-BC50-555759CFE896-350x350.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0FE3A0B5-041D-4627-BC50-555759CFE896-750x750.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0FE3A0B5-041D-4627-BC50-555759CFE896.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families of slain police officers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Chief of Staff to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lagosstate.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lagos State<\/a> Governor, Mr. Tayo Ayinde stated this at the presentation of Five Million Naira cheque to the family of a <a href=\"https:\/\/rrslagos.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rapid Responses Squad<\/a> (RRS) officer; Superintendent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> Oluwatobi Peters who died in active service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to Mr. Ayinde, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lagosstate.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Government<\/a> provided the monetary support as a token and the government\u2019s efforts at comforting the families left behind maintaining that no amount of financial gift can make up for lost lives and the gallantry of the fallen patriots. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He further disclosed that medical care were also provided for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">security operatives<\/a> who got injured while discharging their duty at the expense of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lagosstate.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Government<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Chief of Staff added that these gesture is one of Governor Sanwo-Olu\u2019s policy in ensuring the welfare of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">security personnel<\/a> for effective performance of their duties in protecting lives and properties in the State which is in line with the THEMES agenda on Security and Good Governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He gave the assurance that the <a href=\"https:\/\/lagosstate.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Government<\/a> would ensure that the State remain secure and safe with far reaching support to security operatives in the State in 2022 and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In his own remarks, the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Chief of Staff; Mr. Olawale Musa expressed the commitment of the present administration to consistently compensate beneficiaries (Next of Kin) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police Officers<\/a> that passed away in active service in the State. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Government has disclosed that it has paid compensation of Seventy Million Naira to security officers who died or got injured in the line of duty in the State since the inception of this administration in May 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1396,1199,419,5952],"class_list":["post-10725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-lasg","tag-policemen","tag-rrs","tag-slain-police-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}