LAGOS – No fewer than 58 suspected social miscreants allegedly involved in the act of terrorising residents and traders at Itafaji, Obadina, Tinubu and other areas in Lagos Island have been apprehended by the Police on Monday midnight.
It would be recalled that the miscreants from Agarawu area under the guise of fighting their counterpart from Onola area have been attacking and robing residents and traders along Tinubu, Obey, Obadina, Luther, Alli and Itafaji areas for about two weeks.
The miscreants were allegedly armed with cutlasses, knives and dane guns which they used to threatened their victims to part with belongings.
In a statement by the PPRO, Lagos command, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, “The command despatched a team comprised RRS, Taskforce, Police Mobile Force, Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps and other local security outfits, under the command of ACP Bode Ojajuni, the Area Commnader Area A, Lion Building, to go after the bad boys in the areas which eventually led to the arrest of 58 suspects on Monday 8th February 2021 at about 8pm.
“The miscreants and gangsters in the areas have severally attacked and damaged peoples properties while some allegedly lost their lives to their various criminal activities”, the statement read.
It added, “The Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has deemed it necessary and imperative to raise a formidable team to carry out sting operations on the island to restore normalcy to the affected areas”.
The suspects arrested included:
1 Sikiru Kareem (Elderly person)
2 Kamal Olatoyinbo (Elderly Person)
3 Sulaimon Alaga (Elderly Person)
4 Musa Alidu (Elderly Person)
5 Amadu Chidi
6 Abass Saliu
7 Gafar Ambali
8 Oriyomi Adeyemi
9 Suleiman Saleh
10 Ojo Junior
11 Abayomi Ogunleye
12. Alhassan Abdulahi
13. Kazeem Olagbajumo
14. Rilwan Salau
15 Wajud Taiwo
16 Suleiman Adewale
17 Wahab Azeez
18 Adam Oluwole
19 Solomon Segun
20 Wahab Korede
21 Micheal Oladeji
22 Gafar Mustapha Adeniyi
23 Oluwatobu Senu
24 Afeez Sulaimon
25 Surajudeen Jimoh
26 Adamu Ahmed
27 Nojeem Ajayi
28 Yusuf Lawal
29 Akanbi Quadri
30 Afeez Shodimu
31 Monday Joseph
32 Adigun Yahaya
33 Yusuf Salisu
34 Nuhu Umar
35 Abbey Sholola
36 Benjamin Charlie
37 Amen Daniel
38 Samuel Igogboye
39 Tony Nwokeji
40 Ibrahim Usman
41 Sulaiman Rasak
42 Haliru Abdulahi
43 Usman Mohammed
44 Yusuf Ayinde
45 Lekan Salisu
46 Abubakar Ibrahim
47 Yusuf Musa
48 Michael Francis
49 Abashin Rasheed
50 Saheed Dauda
51 Njokwu Ogonna
52 Njokwu Chinemenem
53 Chinanso Okechukwu
FEMALE:
1 Sharon Egiri
2 Idris Jumoke
3 Nike Idris
4 Adewale Adeola
5 Damilola Omoniyi
The Commissioner of Police has directed that the suspects be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba for proper investigation and prosecution.
He also warned and assured that the command will not relent on its oars in making sure that the Lagos Island and the state generally are free of gangsterism, hooliganism and crimes.
