At least six persons have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for their involvement in an attack on innocent Lagosians on Tuesday, October 13.
The attack which left at least one person dead and several vehicles damaged took place along Ondo Street, Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State.
According to reports, the hoodlums involved in the act were suspected to be cultists.
Confirming the arrest of the suspects, the spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, said at about 9:30pm on Tuesday, the hoodlums trooped out in numbers and started causing trouble in the area, but the police, while responding to distress calls from innocent people, chased and arrested some of them.
He gave the names of the suspected hoodlums as Qudus Oke, 22; Abdullahi Ajose, 25; Kayi Ajayi, 33; Micheal Ben, 27; Godwin Joseph, 25 and Oluwasegun Akinlade, 29.
According to Adejobi, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu has vowed to get Lagos rid of hoodlums, hooliganism, gangsterism, cultism, and other social vices. The Commissioner said all hands are on deck in the command to resist any act capable of jeopardizing security networking of the state and causing pains and agonies to Lagosians during the ember months and beyond.
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