911 Emergency Number: Does it work In Lagos?

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A colleague shared his peronal experience of how his neighborhood in Ketu was thrown into Chaos yesterday evening. Agbero boys seeking to gather ‘rent'(owo ile) from the master of a 20 feet container unleashed terror on the Ketu neighbourhood, maiming people and destroying parked vehicles.

In the heat of the mayhem, he couldn't remember any emergency number other compared to the 911 ingrained in his brain from watching American films, and he dialled it just for the sheer hell of it.

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Surprisingly, a dispatcher picked it, got the particulars of the area, like the nearest bus stop, promised that the nearest police station could be contacted immediately and, wait for this, thanked him for remembering to dial 911. About an hour or so later, the police stepped directly showed up to rein in the miscreants and restore order.