Safety of our members, not #EndSARS prompted our letter to Police IG, says LERSA

• Published date: 08 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The Lekki Estates Residents and Stakeholders Association (LERSA) has explained why it wrote a letter to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Usman Alkali Baba.LERSA, the umbrella association of residents of the Lekki and Eti Osa communities, was responding to

media reports linking the association's stance on mandatory mental evaluation of police officers to the #EndSARS protest.

In a statement issued at the weekend LERSA President Olorogun James Emadoye, recalled that the association wrote the letter to the Inspector General of Police following the recent extrajudicial killings of its members, Bolanle Raheem and Gafaru Buraimoh by operatives of the Nigerian Police.

However, the LERSA President clarified that while reference was made to one of the recommendations of the #EndSARS protest, which aligns with the association's stance on the need for mental evaluation of police officers, LERSA did not intend to advance the protest as suggested by a section of the media.

'The attention of the Executive Council of Lekki Estates Residents and Stakeholders Association (LERSA) has been drawn to various newspaper publications on the above letter forwarded to the Inspector-General of Police and the Executive Governor of Lagos State. Some of the publication headlines were linked directly to...