Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have recovered the mace of the Ogun State House of Assembly reported to have been stolen.
The mace was recovered on Friday at Abule Ado area of Lagos State at about 8.30 a.m.
According to the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the operatives “who were responsive, worked on an 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.”
The mace is said to have been handed over to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, who later instructed the DCP State CID, Lagos State, Yetunde Longe, to protect it and liaise with the Ogun State Police Command on the return of the recovered mace to Ogun State.
Odumosu, however, promised to assist the Ogun State Police Command in the investigation into the incident that led to the recovery of the mace.
It would be recalled that the mace was on Thursday declared to have been stolen.
According to the spokesman of the police in Ogun State, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, burglars broke into the office of the Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly through the roof and stole the mace.
