A gang called “Community Policing Youth Vanguard” in Festac
area of Lagos State on Monday allegedly invaded the Amuwo
Odofin Local Council Secretariat, attacking and injuring
officials of the Local Council on Monday, 14th July, 2014.
The group which is allegedly owned and used by the Area
Commander in the Festac area, ACP Dan Okoro, is said to be
unleashing haphazard mayhem in the area with heavy reliance
on the arbitrary backing of the Area Commander, Mr. Dan
Okoro.
According to officials of the council, activities reported of the
gang in the past had included rape, robbery and unwarranted
physical molestation of residents.
The council Chairman, Mr. Ayo Adewale, said he had severally
reported activities of the group to police authority, but that
nothing had been done to curb them or their police clout, Mr.
Dan Okoro, the Area Commander who invented the group.
He also said Mr. Dan Okoro, in blatant display had threatened
to continue using the group against the Local Council.
In a recent scuffle between the gang and security details of
the Local Council, for instance, ACP Dan Okoro was said to
have brazenly opend restricted roads for trucks and personally
driven with truck owners to use the routes against orders
protecting the roads for maintenance.
With the attack on council secretariat on Monday, the group’s
alleged nefarious activities added another mileage. The
hoodlums reportedly invaded the Local Council office, wielding
bottles, machetes and other dangerous weapons and attacking
employees of the Council Secretariat.
The Local Council Chairman, Mr. Ayo Adewale said he was
their target, but had been rescued by men of the NSCDC and
the Rapid Response Squad, after police details attached to his
office watched the hoodlums without stopping them.
He said the hoodlums numbered about a hundred when they
swooped on the secretariat and overpowered the security
around the council office. He narrated stated that the group
had unleashed a major mayhem earlier in the day and one of
their leaders had been arrested and handed over to the police.
The arrested gang member however, was released upon
intervention by ACP Dan Okoro, following which they struck at
the Council Secretariat later around 5.30pm on the day.
Asides from ACP Dan Okoro’s “police” hoodlums, another
individual identified as Fatai Onifade is said to have also been
inspired by the impunity of the group and had created his own
gang. Fatai was quoted as claiming to belong to Dr. Fredrick
Fasheun’s faction of the OPC. Fasheun had however denied
him, but both hoodlum gangs still walk free and continued
with their activities.
Previously, the Local Chairman said he had led a protest
against activities of the gang, after the Area Commander, ACP
Dan Okoro allegedly spearheaded brazen violation of
Government orders, obtaining illegal money from trucks drivers
and leading them through areas of their restriction.
Adewale suggested that their attacks continued as he had
refused to recognize the “unlawful” group.
“The group is not recognized by law”, he said, adding that he
would not recognize any gang of hoodlums.
He also warned that his life is under serious threats by the
hoodlums.


“May I use this medium to inform the general public that if
anything should happen to me or members of my family,
Emmanuel Onwa, Fatai Onifade a.k.a Apashe, Niyi and The
Area E Commander, ACP Dan Okoro who formed that group
should be the first set of people to be investigated and held
responsible”, he said.


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