Admin l Sunday, October 16, 2022
LAGOS, Nigeria – Not less than 33 area boys (miscreants) have been arrested by the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences during a raid on blackspots in Mafolukwu and Oshodi axis of Lagos State.
About 114 motorbikes were also impounded during the raid, Chairman of the taskforce, CSP Ishola Jejeloye has said.
“We carry out raids like these regularly in order to rid the streets of criminal elements who make use of these dark spots as a safe haven. We have rounded up 33 suspects who will be profiled and if found to be of questionable character, will be charged to court accordingly”
Jejeloye further stated that these men of the underworld use these locations as a take off point to rob, pick pockets of unsuspecting pedestrians and sometimes intimidate them in order to disposes them of their hard earned valuables.
“We are going to put an end to these acts by ensuring that these policing tactics are utilised every now and then to achieve adequate safety and security in line with the THEMES agenda of the State Government”
In a similar development, the Lagos State Taskforce carried out a raid of recalcitrant okada operators at Amuwo Odofin acc is where 114 bikes were seized for operating on restricted routes in the State.
“Okada riders in this part of Lagos take advantage of the massive road construction going on here to perpetrate their illegal activities but we wont condone it any longer”
Jejeloye sounded a note of warning to all elements involved in such vices and assures them that the long arm of the law would soon catch up with them.
He assured Lagosians that activities of okada riders which had been brought down to a recogniseable minimum would not be allowed to resurface in a mega city like Lagos.
