The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) has said it does not operate with unbranded vehicles.
The agency was speaking on allegations making around the media that its operatives were operating in unbranded vehicles.
The Chairman of the agency, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, said the attention of the agency has been drawn to a fake and unsubstantiated story circulating on social media that operatives of the agency used an unbranded vehicle (Sienna) to arrest motorists plying BRT corridor in Maryland.
in a statement by Head, Public Affairs Unit, Lagos State Task Force Mr. Adebayo Taofiq noted that:
“The agency wishes to state that the story was not only fake but that there was never a time the enforcement team used any uncustomized vehicle to carry out enforcement operation on BRT corridor around Maryland.
“Members of the public are advised to be wary of fake officers who move from different spots across the State carrying out illegal enforcement operations by impersonating to be from the agency.
“The operatives of the agency at any enforcement operations at different parts of the State use branded vehicles and always have a jacket on their uniform with a bold inscription ‘LASG TASKFORCE”. Any enforcement Police Officers without our branded vehicles or a jacket on his or her uniform is not from Lagos State Task Force”
“Members of the public particularly motorists are hereby alerted to identify Police Officers of the Agency from those impersonating during any enforcement assignments across the State”.
