The Ogun State House of Assembly's missing mace has been recovered in Lagos State by the police .
Spokesman of the State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi,in a statement, explained that the mace was recovered on Friday around the Abule Ado area of Lagos.
According to him“The police operatives attached to Trade Fair Station of the Lagos State Police Command , Friday, December 11, 2020, recovered the missing mace of the Ogun State House of Assembly at Abule Ado Area of the state at about 8.30 am,”
Edu-Biznews recalled that some suspected Hoodlums on early hours of Thursday burgled the office of the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly and carted away the symbol of authority of the house.
Adejobi explained that the arrest was made possible, following the intelligence received by the police on the Suspects.
His words“The police operatives, who were responsive, worked on intelligence from the members of the community that someone in a moving vehicle, suspected to be Toyota Siena Space Wagon, threw out an object into the nearby bush and recovered the object which was later identified to be the Ogun State House of Assembly Mace."
Adejobi in the statement, added that the allegedly stolen mace of the Ogun State House of Assembly had been handed over to the Lagos State Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu who later instructed
the DCP State CID, Lagos State, Yetunde Longe, to protect the mace and liaise with the Ogun State Police Command on the return of the recovered mace to Ogun State.
Odumosu had in the statement promised to assist the Ogun State Police Command in the investigation into the incident that led to the recovery of the mace.
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