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"Police" Hoodlums Attack Amuwo LG Secretariat In Lagos, Injure Officials by pheesayor(m): 8:26pm On Jul 17, 2014 |
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. watch video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyIEiljL4k ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1153523 |
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