Hoodlums, Robbers Take Over Cele, Okota, Ejigbo
Residents and motorists in Okota, Ejigbo and Idimu areas of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have sent a security alert to the state government, the police authority and other security agencies, to come to their rescue on the unscrupulous activities of hoodlums, gunmen and political thugs, who have become a terror in the area.
Some of the residents of the area decried the influx of the hoodlums and political thugs. They explained that the thugs, who disguise as area boys, have been going around harassing and robbing innocent people at gun point, but that the development has been checkmated by members of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).
Barrister Chuck Amachere said armed robbers have taken over the whole place under the disguise of being area boys. They have been terrorizing motorists, passers-by and others with guns, disposing them of their valuables, money and sometimes injure them. Though some of them have been overpowered in the past and taken to Okota Police Station, but somehow they are released and within a few days are back in business.
Amachere said that information at his disposal has it that the said hoodlums have graduated to political thugs and have promised to unleash terror on the residents of the area during the April polls.
A commuter bus driver, Mr. Durojaiye Adegeye, expressed fear at the rate pickpockets, hoodlums and armed robbers are operating at Cele bus stop in recent times.
Adegeye suggested that if officials of RRS, Task Force and mobile policemen are stationed at the bus stop, it would put an end to the hoodlums’ activities.
Some members of the NURTW who spoke with Lagos Bulletin called on the state governor and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to deploy security personnel to the area. It is believed that the presence of Policemen and OP MESA at the bus stop would forestall a breakdown of law and order.
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