Police Operatives in Lagos have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in an attack on Lagos State Taskforce and other Anti One Way Special teams that left one officer injured.
It was gathered that police operatives attached to Morogbo and Victoria Island Divisions respectively engaged and arrested some traffic armed robbers at various locations in the state.
This was confirmed in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the state, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.
He said the incident happened on 17th November, and that policemen in a gun duel with the gang of traffic armed robbers, gunned a member while others fled.
He explained that the gang had earlier shot and injured one police Corporal attached to Police Border Patrol team around the area and dispossessed him of his motorcycle.
However, Items recovered from the gang included a locally-made gun with some live cartridges recovered and the Corporal’s snatched motorcycle.
The Lagos state commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu in his reaction stated that they will be charged to court so as to serve as deterrent to others who are fond of attacking security operatives while on their lawful duties.
Odumosu reiterated the command’s readiness to curtail any act of lawlessness on full enforcement of the Lagos State Transport Sector Law (2018) in the state.
He emphasized on the need to clamp down on traffic violators who have occasioned series of lawlessness, road crashes and accidents leaving many lives lost and properties damaged.
The police boss therefore warned Okada operators and other categories of violators to respect the law as any attack on police officers and other security agents and unleashing terror in the state will not be tolerated.
Any act of lawlessness or crimes will be resisted by security operatives within the ambit of the law, he said
