20 suspected miscreants nabbed in Lagos

Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps also known as KAI, on Tuesday, arrested 20 suspected miscreants terrorising the Oshodi area of the state.

The state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a terse message shared on his X.com page on Tuesday.

According to him, the suspected miscreants were arrested in the early hours of Tuesday during a patrol.

He said, “Twenty miscreants arrested by the operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps at Oshodi during early morning patrol.”

PUNCH Metro reported last Wednesday that officials of the state task force said it would prosecute the 28 miscreants it arrested in some parts of the state for terrorising and extorting motorists.

The agency’s Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, had in a statement noted that the miscreants were always extorting motorists whose vehicles broke down on the highway under the guise of collecting ‘owo omotaku’, literally meaning “breakdown money.”

He said a raid on areas such as Mile 2, Alaba Rago, FESTAC, Apapa, and the surrounding environments led to the arrest of the miscreants.