Olusegun Ogungbemide, the Lagos State Sector Commander, FRSC, made the disclosure during the control of traffic on Otedola Bridge Inward Lagos along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday.
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Though the year was characterised with challenges of COVID-19 pandemic and #EndSARS protest, the Command was able to arrests a total of 471 drug offenders comprising of 424 males and 47 females from various locations across Lagos State.
Speaking during the passing-out ceremony in Ikeja, Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu urged the officers to operate within the guidelines that had been given to them.
The Commandant stated this in a Christmas greeting to Lagosians and all Nigerians.
The State Commandant, Paul Ayeni, during the parade, said the alleged assault and defilement was reported to the command on December 21 by one Funke Balogun, the victim’s mother.
The Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Abdullahi Gana, at the ceremony said the decoration was to enable the concerned corps to use their new ranks.
The Commandant of the NSCDC in Lagos State, Paul Ayeni, while parading of the three suspects, said they were arrested and handed to the Nigerian Navy’s Patrol team at about 7:50am on December 5.
It was learnt that on December 1, the Command, after a prolong surveillance, bursted another major illicit drug syndicate in Oyingbo area of Lagos State and seized over half a ton (563.15kg) of cannabis sativa and equally arrested a member of the syndicate.
Balogun who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt said that his officers had been positioned to nip in the bud any clandestine crime in every nook and cranny of the state especially during Yuletide.
The Lagos State Commander of the NDLEA, Ralph Igwenagu, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Wednesday.
The Lagos State Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons says it secured conviction for 84 human traffickers since inception in 2003.
The Controller of Prisons, Lagos State Command, Tunde Ladipo, says 24 inmates of Ikoyi Prisons will participate in the forthcoming 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos State Command, on Thursday, assured residents of the state of free flow of traffic, in spite the temporary closure of the third mainland bridge.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Lagos State Command, says it is prosecuting 108 suspects for various drug offences, and has so far secured 83 convictions between January and July.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suspects were arrested following a tip off from the public that suspected stolen building materials were being off loaded into a shop at Iddo area of Lagos.
Lawal Opeloyeru, Principal Staff Officer, Operations and Intelligence of the agency, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday.
Adetoye who is on transfer to the Lagos State Command also said 69 seizures with Duty Paid Value worth over N124 million were made within the period.