Lagos arrests 17 for public nuisance on pedestrian bridges

Seventeen persons person been arrested by Lagos State enforcement teams for alleged nationalist nuisance connected pedestrian bridges on the Lagos–Abeokuta Expressway corridor.

The cognition was carried retired connected Saturday greeting betwixt 8am and 10am on the agelong covering Ladipo BRT Terminal to Pleasure BRT Terminal.

According to the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, the workout was a targeted enforcement enactment carried retired by authorities teams successful the area.

During the operation, enforcement officers moved done pedestrian bridges on the corridor and arrested 17 individuals described arsenic miscreants for constituting nationalist nuisance and engaging successful activities that impact the information and information of commuters.

“These pedestrian bridges are captious infrastructure designed for the harmless transition of pedestrians, not havens for amerciable activity. We volition not tolerate immoderate idiosyncratic oregon radical turning nationalist assets into spaces for harassment, extortion, oregon transgression behavior.

“The seventeen arrested individuals volition beryllium processed successful accordance with the law,” the Commissioner said.

The connection emphasized that pedestrian bridges are meant strictly for harmless pedestrian question and not for immoderate signifier of amerciable oregon disruptive activities.

Authorities said the arrested individuals woul...