RE: MISLEADING CLAIMS REGARDING EXTORTION OF MOTORISTS BY LAGOS STATE TASKFORCE – YET-TO-BE-IDENTIFIED SECURITY OPERATIVES: ANOTHER CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.
RE: MISLEADING CLAIMS REGARDING EXTORTION OF MOTORISTS BY LAGOS STATE TASKFORCE – YET-TO-BE-IDENTIFIED SECURITY OPERATIVES: ANOTHER CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY The Lagos State Taskforce wishes to address a misleading narrative circulating on social media, particularly in a viral video shared by protesters and concerned groups who recently demonstrated at the Lagos State House of Assembly. The protest was in response to the alleged extortion of motorists by security operatives, yet to be identified, who are not officials of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit. We categorically state that the Lagos State Taskforce had no involvement in the said incident. Our enforcement teams are led by seasoned, well-trained, and highly disciplined senior officers who are far too professional and educated to jeopardise their ranks, integrity, and years of service for personal gain. For clarity, our agency does not operate on BRT corridors, nor were any of our personnel deployed to...
According to sources,a dismissed soldier from a military formation in Lagos,38 year old Ibrahim Ari has been arraigned for allegedly robbing Hassan Mohammed of the sum of N5,855,000 inside his vehicle.Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad {FSARS},Adeniji Adele Road,Lagos,arrested Ari sometime last year.After robbing the victim of the money at gun point,he threw him out of the moving vehicle and escaped.After the incident was reported to the police,Ari and his accomplice were arrested.After investigation by CSP D.Daura and his team,the accused was arraigned before an Igbosere magistrate court,Lagos on a two count charge of felony to wit,armed robbery.The police prosecutor,Supol C.N Odii informed the court that the accused and his accomplice currently remanded at Ikoyi Prison,Lagos,committed the offence on 17 May 2014 at Obalende B/stop,Lagos.Odii told the court that the incident occurred when the victim was sent to the bank by his boss,Alhaji Aliu Tanko,to lodge the sum of N3,285,000,700 British Pound Sterling and $160 USD all valued at the N5,855,000 into his account.He alleged that the accused,who was still a serving military officer at the time of the incident,and his accomplice ambushed the victim at Obalende bus stop,Lagos with their unpainted cab pretending to be a cab drivers.Immediately the victim arrived Obalende to board a bus to the bank,the accused and his partner in crime lured the victim into their cab as a passenger and zoomed off.As the accused got to the 3rd Mainland bridge,Lagos,he threatened the victim with a pistol,robbed of the money and pushed him out of the moving vehicle and escaped.
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