One dead, 48 arrested as ‘hoodlums’ disrupt Lagos community

The Lagos police command says it has arrested 48 “hoodlums” for causing chaos in Gengere community in Mile 12 area of the state, on Thursday.

Muyiwa Adejobi, Lagos police public relations officer, in a statement, said violence broke out when one Aliyu Shuaibu stabbed Sadiq Oloyo, another resident, to death.

Adejobi said as a result, some hoodlums launched a reprisal and caused commotion in the area.

“In furtherance of the command’s commitment to maintain law and order in Gengere Community, Mile 12, Lagos State, the Command has again arrested forty eight (48) suspects in connection with the crisis that broke out between some hoodlums at about 1am today, Thursday 6th May, 2021,” Adejobi said.

“In the course of investigation, it has been discovered that one Aliyu Shuaibu, m, stabbed one Sadiq Oloyo, m, both of Gengere Community, and lost his life before any medical attention could be given to him. As a result of the incident, some hoodlums, on reprisal attack, went on rampage and caused commotion in the area.

“On the strength of this development, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, directed that additional men be deployed to the area to restore normalcy while forty-eight (48) of them were arrested.”

He added that Odumosu ordered that the hoodlums be made to face the full wrath of the law to serve as a deterrent to others who might want to foment trouble in the state.

“It will be recalled that the Commissioner of police, on Tuesday 4th May, 2021, ordered for the arrest of thirteen (13) leaders of warring groups in the area who were fingered in the lingering crisis rocking Gengere Community, Mile 12, Ketu, Lagos on 30th Apri, 2021.

“CP Odumosu has, therefore, affirmed that the command and other security agencies will adopt 24-hour patrol and surveillance in the area until the culprits involved in the crises are brought to book and total law and order is restored in the entire area.”

He also said the CP warned that the command will not tolerate any act of violence and lawlessness in any part of the state “as all hands are on deck to suppress any criminal act within the ambit of the law”.