The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) has arrested 21 suspected notorious miscreants/cultists during a raid on criminal hideouts in the state.
Chairman Lagos State Task Force CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, who led the enforcement team disclosed that the suspects were arrested during an enforcement operation on criminal hideouts at Ogudu and Ajah as directed by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu.
Egbeyemi said :
“During the enforcement exercise, a large number of miscreants/cultists launched a serious attack on the officers with broken bottles, stones, axes and other dangerous weapons from different spots including uncompleted buildings”.
He said that upon the attack, officers of the agency stood their ground and flushed them out from their hideouts while some of them escaped through the roof.
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Egbeyemi maintained that residence around the areas had complained on the attack of innocent members of the public by miscreants and cult gangs especially in the early hours of the day and late at night.
“Let me sound note of warning to owners of structures harbouring criminal elements to immediately flush them out as government would not hesitate to demolish any building occupied by miscreants and cultists across the State”
He, however, said that CP Odumosu further directed that the suspects should be prosecuted.
Meanwhile, in line with the directives of the Lagos State government on social distancing, use of nose-mask and ban on activities of commercial motorcyclists across the State as part of efforts to curb the spread of Coronavirus pandemic, the agency impounded 78 commercial motorcycles for engaging in illegal activities around Onipanu, Adekunle and Igbo-efon by Jakande area of Lekki.
