Governor-elect of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-olu has condemned extra judicial killings of any form in the state. Sanwo-Olu shared this when he visited the parents of Kolade Johnson to pay his respect to them. He said: “I think this incident is a wake up call to all that there is need for the police hierarchy to take a second look at the operations of their rank and file. A situation where men and officers of the police and indeed any security organization will willfully cut down the lives of our youths is unacceptable. We should all speak against it. We must all rise against it. 
The police should realize that they are there to protect the citizens and not to send them to early grave under any guise.’’ Speaking on his future administrations commitment to the issue, Sanwo-Olu added that: “I know that the 21st century policing should thrive more on intelligence gathering, tactical operations, which will bring about clinical execution of assignment. With this in mind, our security operatives should adopt modern techniques in fighting crimes so as to reduce incidents of avoidable deaths especially of innocent youths’’. 
He added that: ” It is gratifying to note that the police authorities acted promptly. We read in the news that they have dismissed the officer who allegedly fired the shot that killed Mr. Johnson. This shows to us that we are not living in Banana Republic. We live in a society where justice and equity should be the order of the day.’’
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