…Police Arrest Obstructors, Traffic Robbers
Dedeigbo Ayodeji
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has reiterated the command’s readiness to curtail any act of lawlessness on full enforcement of the Lagos State 2018 Transport Sector Law.
The Commissioner of Police gave the warning on Thursday at his Ikeja office while reviewing the ongoing traffic operations in the state with the management team of the command.
The police boss warned okada operators and other categories of violators to respect the law as any attack on police officers and other security agents and unleashing terror in the state will not be tolerated. Any act of lawlessness or crimes will be resisted by security operatives within the ambit of the lawe.
In other news, the command has arrested seven suspects in connection with the attacks on the operatives of the Lagos State Taskforce and other Anti One Way Special teams at various locations in the state.
The police operatives attached to Morogbo and Victoria Island Divisions respectively, have also arrested some traffic armed robbers at various locations in the state.
Similarly, the police operatives attached to Victoria Island Division, on 18th November, engaged another gang of suspected armed robbers and arrested a member of the gang, one Ajayi Lateef, 19, with a dummy gun.
The gang had earlier robbed a tricycle at Victoria Island.