Anxiety as 123 ‘suspicious-looking’ men from Jigawa are arrested in Lagos

Ebun Francis|

The Lagos State Environment Sanitation and Special Offenses Taskforce has intercepted a truck loaded with 48 motorcycles and “suspicious-looking” 123 men coming from the North-Western state of Jigawa.

The chairman of the state task force, Yinka Egbeyemi, while briefing newsmen on Friday, said the truck and the men were arrested following a tip-off by members of the public who were alarmed at the behaviour of the men.

According to Egbeyemi, the truck and its occupants were subsequently driven to the task force office in Oshodi for interrogation from the Agege area of the state where they were intercepted.

He said, “While my team was on operation, we got information from the public that some people had entered into Lagos in trailer loaded with over 300 people. 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.”

One of them, Haruna, according to Egbeyemi, said he had already paid for an N7000 accommodation in Isolo area of the state.

Mohammed Ibrahim, also among those interrogated, said he was on his way to meet his brother in Badagry, Lagos to keep himself busy after concluding his farm work in the north.