Seventy-one suspected miscreants were arrested over the weekend by the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) in a dawn raid of black spots at Oshodi.
The Taskforce also impounded 227 motorcycles from riders plying prohibited routes.
The Head, Public Affairs Unit, Femi Moliki, in a statement on Sunday, July 4, 2021, said that the raid was in line with the directives of the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, to the Taskforce to rid Oshodi of traffic robbers and miscreants who harass and dispossess motorists and commuters of their belongings.
The suspects indicted for their notoriety and criminal conduct in the areas included Solomon Ebenezer (29), Toyin Shoboyejo (29), Chidebere Peter (29) and Demola Olowe (a.k.a FGN), all of whom were re ex-convicts.
The agency’s team, which was led by its Chairman, CSP Shola Jejeloye, raided and combed Oshodi Oke, Oshodi Underbridge, Toyota, Fatai Atere, among others, where many ex–convicts, drug addicts and peddlers were arrested between 5a.m and 6a.m.
Moliki said that Jejeloye personally screened the suspects one after the other, on getting to the agency’s headquarters in Oshodi, before releasing five of them.
Some of the motorists and passers-by, who witnessed the arrest of some of the miscreants, commended the agency for evacuating some of the miscreants, adding that they had made Oshodi inaccessible at dawn and at night.
The 227 motorcycles impounded for plying restricted routes were intercepted at Ikeja Along, Ogba, Alaguntan, Abule Egba, Command, Gate and Ayobo.
The Chairman vowed that the agency would intensify efforts to complement the Command in ridding the state of criminals while also continuing with the clampdown on bikes plying prohibited routes in the state.
