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20 injured as suspected FERMA men raid Kosofe LG officeKAZEEM UGBODAGA NO fewer than 20 persons were injured when those believed to be operatives of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) yesterday stormed the secretariat of Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State with dangerous weapons. The cudgel and cutlass-wielding assailants were said to have wounded some council officials and others transacting business at the secretariat. The council chairman, Mr. Kunle Soname, in a statement, said the assailants wearing reflective jackets of FERMA struck around 10.45 a.m., armed with cudgels, cutlasses and guns, adding that he escaped by the whiskers. Soname said officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) and Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) were the target of the attack, which he said was suspected to have been initiated from the Toll Gate annex office of FERMA. He said he invited the police to restore law and order while those wounded had been hospitalised and described the attack as an affront on the democratic process and a grave danger for the polity. �When a government agency descends on another with utter disregard for the law, then a state of anarchy results which will do no good to Nigerians and our desire for popular government,� he said While calling on the police to fish out the culprits and prosecute them accordingly, Soname said there was the need for the appropriate authorities to call the FERMA men to order in the overall interest of peace. Recounting his experience, a LASTMA official, Mr. Adeoye Oluyemi of Zone II who was on duty around the council, said the attack was uncalled for as he and his colleagues were assaulted without any provocation.
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