The Department of State Services, Lagos State Command says it is happy to give intelligence information to the Lagos State Police Command and will continue to do so.
The DSS Director, S.M. Waziri, said this during a familiarisation visit by the new Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa.
Waziri said that giving information to the police was not a favour, but statutory responsibility of the service.
He said: “We are happy to be giving information to the police and we will continue to do it.
“We have gone beyond primordial thinking of inter-agency rivalry.
“We will collaborate to ensure peaceful elections in Lagos.”
Earlier, CP Owohunwa solicited for synergy between the two sister security agencies for the safety and security of people in Lagos State.
Owohunwa specifically called for synergy in the forthcoming general elections, with a view to having a peaceful exercise.
The CP also visited the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Olusegun Agbaje, where he assured him of adequate security for the officials, materials and the electorate during the elections.
Owohunwa assured him that the command would collaborate with sister security agencies to provide the needed security before, during and after the elections.
He said he would take the security of INEC up from where former CP Abiodun Alabi stopped.
Agbaje thanked the new CP for the visit, adding that the commission had a good relationship with the former Commissioner of Police in Lagos.
He said he expected that such relationship would be made better with Owohunwa.
Agbaje said that they were looking on to the police to take leadership in security matters during the elections as stated in the electoral Act.
He said that from assessments so far, they believed that the police was indeed prepared for the elections.
NAN reports that Owohunwa’s familiarisation visit also took him to police formations under him, sister security agencies, and Mile 12 in Kosofe, where some hoodlums protested in the early hours of Friday over the hardship caused by the implementation of the cashless policy of the Federal Government.
