Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Agency (Task Force), Friday, arrested 123 suspected hoodlums of Jigawa State indigenes and impounded 323 commercial motorcycles popularly called okada. It was gathered that the suspects were conveyed into the State by a truck with registration no: Jigawa HJA-680XA which also conveyed 48 Okadas.
The truck, it was learned, was impounded at Agege by officers of the agency after trailing the truck from Toll Gate end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Confirming the arrest, Taskforce Chairman, Yinka Egbeyemi, further disclosed that the agency, since intensifying its clampdown on Okada has impounded no fewer than 323 in last five days. Egbeyemi noted that all the affected people were from Jigawa, saying, 48 of them came into the state with their Okadas in search of greener pastures. The chairman said that all the affected people were thoroughly searched, with no incriminating thing found on them. “While our men were on patrol early this morning, they succeeded in arresting these 123 people, with 48 bikes. They said they were from Jigawa. Forty eight of them were with bikes, others were those who came for greener pasture,” he said. APC adopts direct method as primary holds tomorrow
Speaking further, Egbeyemi said the State Commissioner of Police, Zubair Muazu, had been informed of the development and had, therefore, set up a panel that who profile all the arrested people. The Task Force boss, while noting that Lagos was free for anybody to come, warned that there was no point for anybody that had no bus to do in the state to come in.
