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Babatunde Fashola, governor of Lagos state, believes that were it not for the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the state, the robbery incident at the branch of FCMB on Admiralty Way in the Lekki axis of the state would have been better handled.

Three policemen and a 15-year-old fish hawker were shot to death during the incident, which coincided with the visit of the president to the headquarters of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Marina.

Expressing shock over the incident during a programme tagged ‘An evening with Buhari and Osinbajo’ in Lagos, Fashola sympathised with the victims.

“It was sad to see all our security personnel, all our security vehicles deployed to protect one man,” he said.

“What would be would be, but why would all the vehicles we bought for the police be stationed to receive the president in Lagos, while the citizens were left vulnerable?

“Those policemen have children and tonight, their mothers would be hard put to explain to them why daddy would not coming home.”

He requested a one-minute silence in honour of the deceased, noting that they lost their lives while serving the nation.

The sad incident happened while Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari were in the state for different functions.

The robbers vandalised the vault of the bank and carted the money kept in the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of the bank.

Kayode Aderanti, Lagos state commissioner of police, has vowed that the bandits would be apprehended.