Clash on Lagos Island: We have made some arrests — PPRO
*We hope they will not be released and let go free as usual – Residents
“Usually, police people do their job and always want to work but, can you blame them, when, after arrest of some of these hoodlums a call comes from Alausa for immediate release of the thugs and that is the end of the whole thing? It is hoped that this will not be like that. When those in government or in party that controls government in Lagos State stop backing hoodlums particularly thugs otherwise called Agbero, the undereported insecurity elements we are daily faced with here will be checked,” a concerned resident, who requested not to be mentioned, said.
The Police Command in Lagos State on Saturday said that its men arrested some members of the National Union of Transport Workers (NURTW) during a clash between them on Lagos Island on Friday.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Saturday.
Ajisebutu, however, did not mention how many people were arrested and where they were being detained.
He added that normalcy had returned to the Island as more operatives had been deployed there.
“The police have quelled the crisis. Sufficient facilities were deployed in the area immediately we received a distress call and normalcy was restored.
”Investigation into the crisis is ongoing,” he said.
NAN reports that two factions of the NURTW clashed over the control of some motor parks on the Island on Friday.
The videos of the clash went viral on Friday showing the hoodlums using dangerous weapons against themselves.
Many have, however, expressed hope that those claimed to be have been arrested by the police would not be released on the request of the hoodlums’ political backers in the Lagos State administration, which was said to be the usual practice that has put security officers to disrespect in the eyes of thugs in the state.
“Usually, police people do their job and always want to work but, can you blame them, when, after arrest of some of these hoodlums a call comes from Alausa for immediate release of the thugs and that is the end of the whole thing? It is hoped that this will not be like that. When those in government or in party that controls government in Lagos State stop backing hoodlums particularly thugs otherwise called Agbero, the undereported insecurity elements we are daily faced with here will be checked,” a concerned resident, who requested not to be mentioned, said.
