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LAGOS TASKFORCE APPREHENDS NOTORIOUS HIGHWAY GANG TARGETING TRUCK DRIVERS

The Lagos State Taskforce today in a significant operation led by the Chairman of the Agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, successfully apprehended 51 notorious members of a highway gang known for harassing truck drivers along the Apapa/ Oshodi and Lagos/Badagry Expressway.

This set of individuals have been identified for their brazen tactics, coercing truck drivers to part with money under the pretext of working for the defunct Lagos State Parks and Garages Agency.

Operating with impunity, the gang has subjected many drivers to physical harm and acts of bestiality when they resist extortion attempts.
“We have been on the trail of this gang for a while after receiving several complaints from road users who ply this corridor. We even heard of Instances of drivers who refused to comply and later faced violent threats, including the removal of essential truck components such as batteries and mirrors right on the expressway”. Jejeloye stated.

The Chairman expressed disgust at the manner in which these set of miscreants wreak unnecessary havoc on the Highways in the name of Parks and Garages despite the official pronouncement on the ban on the activities of the Agency late last year.

“The guts to perform these acts are quite baffling. They threaten their victims at day time and night with no regard for existing law and order in the State. Unfortunately we have come to put an end to this jungle justice and they will no longer be allowed to operate anywhere in the State.”

One of the victims, Victor Aiyegbosi, a truck driver with one of the transport companies who was at their mercy recently described them as inhumane in their dealings. He disclosed that they damage their trucks by ripping off cables and shattering the windows and mirrors just to have their way. “The Taskforce assisting us here is the best thing that has happened to us this year so far” he stated.

Jejeloye revealed that the 51 apprehended suspects have been charged to court where 8 out of them pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 7 months imprisonment with an option of 65,000 Naira fine. The remaining 43 pleaded not guilty and their hearing adjourned till the 1st of March 2024.

CSP Jejeloye issues a stern warning to others engaged in acts of impersonation and extortion, urging them to desist forthwith or risk being prosecuted. The Lagos State Government remains committed to ensuring the safety and efficiency of transportation networks within the State as enshrined in the THEMES PLUS agenda of the present administration.

Gbadeyan Abdulraheem
Director, Press & Public Affairs
Lagos State Taskforce


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One striking thing is about 50% of them are on same shirt.
The way they were trying to explain and no one cares to listen to them.You go explain tire.
See the one at the front looking like a low budget bleached 9*ce.

What about private motorist??

Lagos and Lies is like 5 and 6

Story .. From mile2 down to alaba international I have paid almost 120 thousand naira for settlement for a container truck just today.. Ndi ara

Go to Anambra they claim Peter Obi built and see the tough faces of street urchins and Agberos doing worse than what is happening in Lagos. Peter Obi would have been worse than what we are experiencing now in the country. A man that couldn't manage tiny anambra state wants to rule Nigeria. God forbid. Thank God we dodged a bullet.

what will happen to them next? they will be released and resumed to their activities again

Na dem! Just a slap on the wrist & they're unleashed back...

Na lie...Berger nko?

That is the place the crime is being committed because its the main entrance to lagos from the whole nigeria

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Why are they still operating if they have banned Parks and Garages since last year. MC Oluomo should call his boys to order.

Meanwhile watch the biggest ship in the world that is sailing already since January 27th.


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The real scammers and criminals are those Igbo people in Lagos, Both Men and Women, they are criminals


IGBO CRIMINALS FULL LAGOS

Good job.

This Craze people them no go gree go work..na so them go carry big pipe for oshodi mile 2 and festac area de disturb every truck weh pass

.if na me na to shoot their leg since them no get use for am. Craze!

There are some in front of super savers ago palace way, mostly at night

Nice one.

This guy's are nothing but big trouble.

Well done... Make una still dey watch dem cos I no sure say dey don finish o

Good for them

Lagos needs the task force to be a round the clock operational force. That's the difficult aspect of this. While the task force manged to catch these few, some of whom may be innocent, many are still on different roads operating with reckless abandon.

Often times, the task force operates with intensity for a few hours a few days and go to rest but lagosians are hard to trust wether it's in traffic control, market control, environmental control, building control or brazen criminalities such as this. Once the task force sits down a few hours, you find lagosians going back to default and sometimes becoming more hardened in their misdemeanors.

The task force must operate with high intensity for a couple of years, day and night to create a new orientation in Lagos. Otherwise, the state will merely be going round in circles.

Urban bandits.

Mc oluomo boys. Tinubu will call for their release because they're useful to him during election. Nothing in Lagos is for nothing; it's always for something.

Alright.

When Would you come to Ikorodu

They work together. Maybe they stopped remitting some % to the police hence the raiding. Believe NPF at your own peril!

Just take a look at jobless youths languishing. It doesn't matter how many times they are arrested they d still come back or new recruits will emerge. Nothing would change. The corrupt politicians recruited them for campaigns during campaigns now the elections are over what do politicians wants their jobless thugs to do?


They are jobless and hungry..

The corrupt police would just extort and set them free to continue their mayhem.

Naigeeria is a failed nation.

Arresting touts is good but they also indulge in same thing, who will arrest them?

naptu2:
Lagos State Taskforce



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What is 65,000? Chai!

They should be BEATEN with stick.
Heavy BEATING!
Then put in prison.
Then BEATEN inside prison.
and BEATEN again once a week.
All the truck drivers should be given sticks to visit them inside prison
And BEAT them there again.