The Director of Press and Public Affairs, Lagos State Taskforce, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, disclosed this on Wednesday
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The extensive exercise, which took place on Thursday, covered the area along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.
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.
Thirty-one suspects were arrested at Oshodi, Ilupeju and Mushin lurking in the dark around garages and bus stops.
The clearance of the area, in the early hours of Sunday, was supervised by the Chairman of the Agency, Shola Jejeloye.
When the Police Inspector’s mischief was discovered, he was arrested, detained, tried and then demoted
The thugs, numbering about 20, conveyed themselves in a Danfo bus and brandished various types of harmful weapons.
The exercise is in compliance with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s directive last weekend when he visited the site of the seven-storey building that collapsed on Banana Island.
The Chairman of the agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, advised the owners of the illegal structures, makeshift buildings and shanties to immediately remove them as well as vacate the area within the stipulated date given to them by the State Government.
This was contained in a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by Abdulraheem Gbadeyan, spokesperson of the agency.
This is made public in a press release signed by the Taskforce ‘s Director, Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan AbdulRaheem.
The Chairman of the Agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, made this known to journalists on Thursday in Alausa, Ikeja.
The new branded jacket which comes with identification numbers became necessary for easy identification of men and officers during traffic enforcement for compliance activities in view of growing impersonation of the unit’s officers by impostors who are dragging the good name of the agency in the mud.
Jejeloye said this on Friday in Ikeja, while speaking with newsmen, during the crushing of the commercial motorcycles.
Speaking in his office at Bolade, Oshodi, Jejeloye highlighted that though the agency has been crushing bikes in time past, the last of which was on 25th of May,2022, it would intensify its effort in ensuring that all impounded Okada are crushed after following the due process as enshrined in Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law of 2018.
The operation, which lasted about four hours, began in the early hours of Monday, leaving 10 okada operators arrested
The Chairman of the agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye in a swift reaction to The Punch Newspaper report maintaining that the Taskforce has no hand in it, stressing at the time of the incident his men were still at the base.
The clearing up exercise at Mushin/Olosha was spearheaded by the Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, Shola Jejeloye.
The Chairman, Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye explained that what led to the protest by commercial drivers in LASU/Iyana Iba was an attempt to escape arrest by a danfo driver who on sighting the operative of the agency in Iyana – Ipaja sped off and hit a broken down bus.
The organisation stressed that no democratic government should condone such lawlessness by its law enforcement officials.