THE FESTAC TOWN ROBBERY CONTD

When the dust settled after the robbery,Police claimed that N27million and 240 rounds of 7.62 live ammunitions were recovered at the scene.Some lives were lost,prominent among which was the death of a mother and child hit by stray bullets right inside their home.
    The Festac Police Station is strategically located and eisily accessible to all the exits/The Police can effectively case the entire Festac Town within minutes so that no one enters or leaves it except  the person exits or gains entry via the canal close to First,Fourth and Fifth Avenues.One can therefore eisily get the picture of why the hoodlums resorted to using the canal as alleged.It was even alleged that Police authorities called for assistance from sister agencies like the Navy and Air force without any positive response.The Police have since denied this.
     Whether true or false,what can we do to frustrate and stop such brazen banditry in Festac and in other such towns in Nigeria?
    Festac  Town as seen from the air is shaped more like an irregular rectangle.It has 4  main entrances and exits.These are First,Second and Third Gates and the entry though the bridge coming from Apple Junction.Gates 1,2 and 3 are on the road from Mile 2 heading to Badadgry,while the fourth entrance is from off Oshodi-Apapa Express Way branching off at Second Rainbow Bus Stop.
     Festac Town like any other newly created towns or Estates in Nigeria are patterned after similar housing estates in the UK or other Weastern Conuntries.The similarity ends in the conception only.In functionality you find that the sewage system or other basic things like good roads are in dilapidated state.Rooms are over crowded.Green areas have been sold out to land grabbers.children"s play grounds have been converted to apartment blocks.It is all bedlam and orchestrated confusion everywhere.Noise pollution would hardly let you enjoy an afternoom rest in Festac Town.
   Granted that the robbers came through the canal,couldn"t they have been stopped if not before the robbery,after it?Who could have stopped them?The Police,The Navy or the Airforce.The Police in any case has the attributes of both The Navy and Airforce.It has the Marine Police that patrols such water ways like  the canal in Festac.She also has an Air Wing that can boast of many helicopters and some light aircrafts.The Lagos State Government also commissioned some helicopters for aerial surveillance.So what went wrong?