10th July, 2016
Mr Adebayo Taofiq, Head, Public Affairs Unit of the task-force confirmed the arrest to newsmen.
He said that the arrest was made after the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, directed the chairman of the task-force SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, to carry out the operations.
“During the raid, 39 males and one female were arrested.
“Owoseni directed that all those arrested during the operations be charged to Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Courts in Ogba, Lagos.
“The commissioner further directed that raiding of miscreants and hoodlums at different parts of the state, particularly at Oshodi, would be a continuous exercise,’’ he said
Taofiq advised parents to always monitor the activities of their children, especially when they claimed they are coming to Lagos without any tangible job or relations to stay with.
He said that some of the suspects arrested claimed they came to Lagos to `hustle’, but later join bad gangs at Oshodi to pick pockets.