The exercise which kicked off in the wee hours of Saturday was led by the Chairman of the Agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye who decried the state of decadence brought about by squatters who have constantly degraded the environment through their activities in the area.
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Thirty-one suspects were arrested at Oshodi, Ilupeju and Mushin lurking in the dark around garages and bus stops.
The thugs, numbering about 20, conveyed themselves in a Danfo bus and brandished various types of harmful weapons.
The Chief Superintendent of Police spoke during a raid of Mile 2 axis, where 132 commercial motorcycles were confiscated.
This is made public in a press release signed by the Taskforce ‘s Director, Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan AbdulRaheem.
According to eyewitnesses, the clash started between 10am and 11am on Tuesday, with the Task Force backed by operatives of Op MENSA
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Wednesday issued a fresh total ban on okada use in six Local Government Areas.
Yunus said he had never imagined that he would one day take to crime.
Mr Macaroni and 39 others were arrested at the venue of a protest by operatives of the Nigeria Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and Lagos State Task Force
In the video, the protesters were almost sitting on themselves with their upper body naked inside a black Maria van belonging to the Lagos State Task Force
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the auction was in accordance with the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform of 2018.
The protest turned violent on Tuesday in Second Rainbow area of Mile 2 when operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and other Offences made to enforce the law banning the commercial motorcyclists on some roads.
This, The Eagle Online was told, stemmed form the mayhem that resulted from the clash between the okada riders and operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on environmental Sanitation and other Offences in Mile 2 area of Lagos between Monday and Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that trouble started after officials of the Task force stormed the area in the morning and seized some motorcycles.
The 20-year old Onifade was covering the scene of a mob raid on a government facility in the Oko Oba area of Agege Local Government Area for Gboah TV, where he was serving as an intern, when operatives of the task force stormed the scene and engaged hoodlums who attempted to loot palliatives at the Ministry of Agriculture store in the Abattoir area of the state.
The Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed this in a statement by the spokesman of the task force, Adebayo Taofiq, on Sunday.
The Special Committee in a press statement on Wednesday signed by its Chairman, Tunji Bello, informed that working in conjunction with the Victoria Island and Ikoyi Residents Association and different enforcement agencies in the State, it will remove all illegal structures and dislodge all squatters and miscreants in the area
The Chairman, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed that preliminary investigation revealed the suspects – Sodiq Sulaiman and Saidi Ibrahim – stole the tricycle with registration No JJJ-706-QF from where the owner parked it on the road lay-by at Ifo area of Ogun State.
The Chairman of the Agency, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, while addressing owners of these illegal structures/traders at different spots warned them to immediately vacate all road setbacks and walkways within the stipulated date given to them by the government.
Taofiq Adebayo, Head, Public Affairs Unit of the Task Force, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday that the exercise, which began since mid-May, was meant to control traffic and enable Lagos residents get to their destinations in the shortest possible time.