Lagos Taskforce team over an attack on its personnel on December
22, 2020.
Ten persons have been arrested over an attack on
officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement
Agency (Taskforce) during enforcement of the state’s traffic
laws.
The suspects were picked up in the commotion that broke out on
Tuesday in the Ojodu and Obanikoro areas of the state during
enforcement carried out by the taskforce in several parts of
Lagos.
No fewer than 96 commercial motorcycles operating on highways
and in other restricted routes in the metropolis were impounded in
the operation.
The Anti-One-Way team of the taskforce also arrested four
motorists for driving against the traffic.
According to the state government, some hoodlums teamed up with
motorcycle riders around the Ojodu Grammar School area to resist
the move by the taskforce to take away bikes seized during the
enforcement.
motorcycles seized by the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation
Enforcement Agency (Taskforce).
As the hoodlums, armed with iron rods and broken bottles
approached the operatives, policemen led by the Taskforce Chairman,
Shola Jejeloye, repelled the attack and dispersed them, arresting
five suspects in the process.
This caused tension in the area for several minutes before
normalcy returned.
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At Obanikoro, commercial motorcycle riders reportedly pelted
taskforce officers with stones on sighting the enforcement
team.
The policemen arrested four persons said to have taken part in
the attack while one other person was arrested in Ojota.
In his reaction, Jejeloye said the taskforce would not relent in
its activities to restore sanity on the roads.
in Lagos State.
He warned commercial motorcycles illegally operating on
restricted routes to stop defying the government’s restriction
order and limit their activities to roads they were permitted to
operate.
“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,” the taskforce chairman said.
He added, “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 a 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.”