Lagos taskforce arrests 4 over alleged attack on BRT buses
By Adeola Ogunrinde
The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Agency Task Force, on Wednesday said it has apprehended four suspects linked to the August 13, attack on a BRT Bus en route Orile-Iganmu to Alaba Suuru on the Lagos Badagry Expressway
Addressing journalists at the Task Force yard, Oshodi, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Operations, Olusola Oyewole, said that the operatives swung into action on same day and arrested one Mohammed Alli, 30, and three others, while some suspects are still at large.
Oyewole who condemned the act in its entirety, stated that the suspects would be charged to the Court and warned criminally minded persons in the State to desist or face the full wrath of the law.
Oyewole disclosed that the suspects who perpetrated the attack were seven hoodlums, saying the suspects allegedly vandalized the BRT Bus, attacked the passengers, maimed and robbed them of their valuables.
He said: “On August 13, 2024, a group of suspected hoodlums attacked a BRT bus along Orile, precisely Alaba Suru on Badagry Expressway. Seven suspects connected with the criminal act have been apprehended by men of Lagos State Taskforce under the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Fayoade Adegoke”.
The name of the suspects are Ibrahim Lawal, 35, Abati Daniel, 20, llesanmi Kazeem 32, Muhammed Ali, 30.
Chairman of the Task Force, Adetayo Akerele, who spoke in an interview with journalists after parading the suspects, assured commuters and Lagos residents of adequate security, urging them to go about their daily activities without fear or favour.
