Lagos State Task Force Intercepts A Suspicious Truck Carrying 123 Men with 48 Motorbikes.
LAGOS NIGERIA- The Lagos State Environment Sanitation and Special Offences Task-force on Friday seized a truck laden with 48 motorcycles and 123 men coming from the Northern part of Nigeria.
The truck was impounded following a tip-off by members of the public who raised security concern .
After the interception, the truck and its occupants were moved to the office of the taskforce in Oshodi for questioning.
The Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce, Yinka Egbeyemi, said the trailer was detained in the wee hours on Friday, after a security alert from the public.
He said his team responded to the information, which led to the seizure of the truck and its occupants at Agege area of Lagos.
“While my team was on the operation, we got information from the public that some people had entered into Lagos in a trailer loaded with over 300 people,” Mr Egbeyemi said.
We swiftly responded to the alert and trailed the truck from Berger area to Agege. We eventually intercepted the truck which carried no few than 123 men and 48 motorcycles.
“We have interrogated most of the truck’s occupants; from the information we gathered, some of them said they were coming from Jigawa State, with 48 of them claiming to own seized motorcycles. The rest of them said they came to Lagos in search of greener pasture.”
Mr Egbeyemi said the Lagos Police Command had directed that a fact-finding panel be constituted to profile the detained occupants of the truck. He added that nothing incriminating was found on them apart from the motorcycles.
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