A total of 46 Okada riders
have been arrested following an attack on some Lagos State Task Force
officials. Though 18 of them are said to have been released after a thorough
screening, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu directed
that the remaining 28 be prosecuted in court with immediate effect
Drama started when a
distressed call was received that about 14 illegal commercial motorcyclists
attacked the enforcement team of the agency and wounded a paramilitary officer,
Mr. Innocent Okoro, with operational vehicles damaged at Oshodi area of Lagos
State
According to CSP Olayinka
Egbeyemi, Chairman of the Agency, the enforcement team, with the support of
other officials coming from an enforcement operations on Lagos Island chased
them to the compound and discovered a large number of motorcyclists and
miscreants smoking Indian hemp within a residential house.
He added that some of them
escaped through the fence, the enforcement team arrested 46 of them, including
those who carried out the attack.
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