At least 20 underaged suspectedhoodlums and 35 others have beenarrested at Oshodi area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
Officials
of the Lagos Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences Unit
swooped on the suspected hoodlums around 4.30 a.m. on Tuesday in Oshodi
and arrested them.
They were taken away in a Black Maria to the taskforce office at Alausa, Ikeja.
The
under aged suspected hoodlums are aged between 14 and 17, while one of
the adult suspects, Segun Akinlade, was arrested last week, arraigned
before the Special Offences Court and sentenced to 24 hours community
service, but went back to the same touting.
•The arrested undergaged hoodlums
Taskforce
Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, lamented
that under aged children had continued to carry out nefarious activities
in Oshodi, saying that they were being groomed by the adult touts to
take over from them in the future.
He
said officials of the Office of Youth and Social Department of the
state government were invited to sort out the under aged among the
suspected hoodlums and take them to remand homes in the state for
rehabilitation.
Sulaiman stated that the taskforce did not jail under aged children as being speculated in some quarters.
He added that government was determined to rid the streets of Lagos of under aged hoodlums and others.
Sulaiman
debunked claims that the taskforce took some under aged children to
Badagry Prision, saying such a thing never happened as government always
ensured that under aged hoodlums were taken to the remand homes through
the Office of Youth and Social Department.
According to him, some of the under aged children who ran away from home were always being reunited with their families.
On the fate of the other 35 suspected hoodlums, Sulaiman said they would be arraigned in court for their fate to be determined.
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