Lagos Island Unrest: Police arrest 58 suspected hoodlums
By Abolaji Adebayo
The Lagos State Police Command said it has arrested 58 suspected miscreants causing unrest on Lagos Island, 53 males including some elderly persons and five females.
According to the command, the hoodlums were arrested on Monday during a raid by the police to sanitise and restore normalcy to the Agarawu, Ita Faaji, Igbosere and other areas on the Lagos Island which have been under the siege of the miscreants and gangsters.
A statement by the police spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi stated that the command despatched a team comprised of RRS, Taskforce, Police Mobile Force, Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps and other local security outfits, under the command of ACP Bode Ojajuni, the Area Commander Area A, Lion Building, to go after the ‘bad boys’ in the areas.
The suspects were arrested at night around 8:00.
The police command said the miscreants and gangsters in the areas have been attacking and damaging people’s properties while some allegedly lost their lives to their various criminal activities.
“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 statement read.
The suspects arrested include Sikiru Kareem (An elderly person); Kamal Olatoyinbo (Elderly Person); Sulaimon Alaga (Elderly Person); Musa Alidu (Elderly Person); Amadu Chidi; Abass Saliu; Gafar Ambali; Oriyomi Adeyemi; Suleiman Saleh; Ojo Junior; Abayomi Ogunleye; Alhassan Abdulahi; Kazeem Olagbajumo; Rilwan Salau; Wajud Taiwo; Suleiman Adewale; Wahab Azeez; Adam Oluwole; Solomon Segun; Wahab Korede; Micheal Oladeji; Gafar Mustapha Adeniyi; Oluwatobu Senu; Afeez Sulaimon; Surajudeen Jimoh; Adamu Ahmed; Nojeem Ajayi; Yusuf Lawal; Akanbi Quadri; Afeez Shodimu; Monday Joseph; Adigun Yahaya; Yusuf Salisu; Nuhu Umar; Abbey Sholola; Benjamin Charlie; Amen Daniel; Samuel Igogboye; Tony Nwokeji; Ibrahim Usman; Sulaiman Rasak; Haliru Abdulahi; Usman Mohammed; Yusuf Ayinde; Lekan Salisu; Abubakar Ibrahim; Yusuf Musa; Michael Francis; Abashin Rasheed; Saheed Dauda; Njokwu Ogonna; Njokwu Chinemenem; Chinanso Okechukwu
FEMALE: Sharon Egiri; Idris Jumoke; Nike Idris; Adewale Adeola; 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 would not relent in its effort in making sure that the Lagos Island and the state as a whole are free of gangsterism, hooliganism and crimes.
