‘Area Boys’ in Lagos
yesterday attacked men of the state Task Force on Environment and Special
Offence Unit.
It was reported that hoodlums chased the officers in a commercial Volkswagen bus otherwise called ‘Danfo’ on Oshodi-Oke and poured acid on a paramilitary official attached to the task force, Mr Akude Silas.
It was reported that hoodlums chased the officers in a commercial Volkswagen bus otherwise called ‘Danfo’ on Oshodi-Oke and poured acid on a paramilitary official attached to the task force, Mr Akude Silas.
This was as the task force arrested more than 64
miscreants at Oko Mala, Oshodi. The miscreants, it was learnt, were those
terrorising Oshodi and its environs.
Silas and other officers
were on enforcement operation to dislodge street traders around Oshodi area to
ensure free flow of traffic before they were attacked.
The victim was rushed to
the Lagos State Emergency Centre, Toll-Gate before he was later transferred to
the General Hospital, Ikeja.
Speaking with our
correspondent after a visit to the Emergency Ward of the Ikeja General
Hospital, the task force Chairman, Superintendent of Police (SP) Olubukola Abe,
described the attack as barbaric and affront on his men.
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