Lagos Task Force arrests 76 hoodlums in Oshodi, Iyana-Ipaja

By Kazeem Ugbodaga

Officials of the Lagos State Task Force on Saturday arrested 76 hoodlums in Oshodi and Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

They were arrested during a raid by the agency in an enforcement operations tagged: “Eradication of Criminal Hideouts,” carried out at midnight of Saturday around Oshodi and Iyana-Ipaja.

Among those arrested at Iyana-ipaja during the operations was a wanted criminal and a ring leader of a notorious cult group ‘Omije Boys,’ Mr. Franklin Anyawun.

Anyawun, 28, was caught with bags of Indian hemp and he confessed to be a ring leader of a notorious cult group ‘Omije Boys’ who terrorised and dispossessed innocent members of the public of their valuable items at Iyana-Ipaja and its environs.

He also allegedly confessed to be selling illicit drugs to hoodlums around Oshodi, Fadeyi, Idi-Oro at Mushin and Bariga.

Another suspected criminal, Olumide Sanni, 19, who specialised in snatching bags and phones from innocent members around Railway-lines at Oshodi was arrested.

Sanni, who hailed from ‘Oderemo’ in Ogun State made a confessional statement that the operatives of the agency had arrested him three times for criminal activities around Oshodi.

However, Task Force chairman, Olayinka Egbeyemi said the enforcement operation was a continuous exercise, disclosing that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgar had directed all those arrested  to be charged to court.