10 PERSONS ARRESTED FOR ATTACKING LAGOS TASKFORCE OFFICERS, AS GOVT IMPOUNDS 96 COMMERCIAL MOTORCYCLES

... Four Private Cars Confiscated for Driving Against Traffic

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Ten persons have been arrested for attacking the men of Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Agency (Taskforce) during an enforcement of the State’s traffic laws on Tuesday.

The suspects were picked up in the commotion that broke out in Ojodu and Obanikoro during the enforcement carried out by the Taskforce in several areas in Lagos.

No fewer than 96 commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, operating on highways and in other restricted routes in the metropolis, were impounded in the Tuesday operation.

Also, four motorists driving against the traffic were arrested by the Anti-One Way team of the Taskforce.

It was gathered that some hoodlums teamed up with Okada riders around Ojodu Grammar School to resist the move by the Taskforce to take away motorcycles seized during the enforcement.

As the hoodlums, armed with iron rods and broken bottles, approached the Taskforce operatives, the policemen, led by the Taskforce chairman, Shola Jejeloye, a Superintendent of Police (SP), repelled the attack, and dispersed the mobsters and residents scampered for safety, as the Taskforce operatives chased the hoodlums. Five suspects were arrested.

There was tension in the area for several minutes, before normalcy returned. The Taskforce officers remained in the area for hours in a bid to ensure there was no reprisal on residents.

Also at Obanikoro, Okada riders, on sighting the enforcement team, pelted the Taskforce officers with stones. The policemen arrested four persons who took part in the attack. One person was arrested in Ojota.

Jejeloye said the Taskforce would not relent in its activities to restore sanity back on the roads.

He warned commercial motorcycles illegally operating on restricted routes to stop defying the Government’s restriction order, advising them to limit their activities to roads they are permitted to operate.

He said: “We are not surprised about the attack on us by some hoodlums in Obanikoro and Ojodu for carrying out the mandate given to this team by the Lagos State Government.

But, this will never deter us from extending the enforcement to other areas of the States where notorious road users and Okada riders have constituted nuisance.

“We are not after the commercial motorcycles operating in areas where their activities are permitted; we are after those breaking the restriction order and motorists who flout the State’s traffic laws.

This is not the first time our men would be attacked, but we will not relent in carrying out the enforcement.

Ten of those who attacked us were arrested and they will be duly charged.

”The Taskforce chairman maintained that the agency team would work round the clock during Yuletide to carry out the enforcement, warning offenders to desist from flouting the State’s traffic laws.

We are not surprised about the attack on us by some hoodlums in Obanikoro and Ojodu for carrying out the mandate given to this team by the Lagos State Government.

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Emeka71:
You seems to work with road safety.

Odiriance4all:
End task force now

mannobi:
The aftermath of that endsars is still telling on Lagos. Traffic management is now very poor. People deliberately disobey regulations now just because police are no longer valuable. The police ought to have thought of this aftermath before continuing their unprofessional conducts.
When you lose your worth, it takes time to build it up again.
The Lagos state government must make some people skapegoats for normalcy to return to the streets

olayiwola72:
Why Nigerians no Dey ever obey law ... stil same people’s will say they want to be like yankee..let leave our leader aside from this one everyone know say they be weyre

How can a law really work in Nigeria

tunapawizzy:

U do not take away a man's source of livelihood without providing an alternative and think u have some laws that will be respected. Even distribution of wealth is the o ly antidote for lawlessness. U want to build a mega city for people that cannot feed, reducing poverty n joblessness should be the first agenda....people know the consequences of these laws they flout but they still go ahead and damn the consequences, not because they see themselves as invincible but because hunger must be quenched first, then we can discuss.