Lagos State Environment Sanitation and Special Offenses Taskforce on Friday intercepted a truck with 48 motorcycles and 123 men coming from Jigawa State.
The truck was seized following a tip-off by members of the public who raised security concern about the manner with which the occupants of the truck conducted themselves.
After the interception, the truck and its occupants were moved to the office of the taskforce in Oshodi for interrogation.Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce, Yinka Egbeyemi, said the trailer was accosted in the wee hours on Friday after a security alert from the public.
Mr Egbeyemi said his team swiftly 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 operation, we got information from the public that some people had entered into Lagos in a trailer loaded with over 300 people. We swiftly responded to the alert and trailed the truck from the 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,” Egbeyemi said.
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