THE governor of Lagos state met on Tuesday with leaders of the ethnic Yoruba and Hausa communities to urge peace and reconciliation after days of bloodletting in the city. Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu called for the community leaders to press for maximum restraint among the gangs in the Mushin area where well over 100 people were killed in three days of fighting from Saturday to Monday. The meeting was shown on television in the state, along with an appeal by Tinubu for calm. Soldiers were deployed on Tuesday to the area where fighting took place. Deputy Inspector General of Police Sunday Ehindero, who is in charge of Lagos and the southwest, said more policemen were deployed on Tuesday to the troubled district and other flashpoints in Lagos, a city of more than 10-million people. – AFP