Lagos arrests 27 suspected hoodlums for vandalising FESTAC bridge

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The Lagos State Government has arrested 27 suspected hoodlums for allegedly vandalising captious structural components of the recently constructed span linking FESTAC Town to Alakija.

A connection issued by the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, said the suspects were arrested during a associated midnight enforcement cognition by officers of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, and the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, task force.

The cognition followed the find of vandalism beneath the span during an enforcement workout carried retired successful enactment with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s directive to escaped the Lagos-Badagry Transnational Highway of biology pollution, amerciable centrifugal parks, roadside trading, marketplace displays connected road setbacks and pedestrian walkways, arsenic good arsenic different forms of infractions.

According to the government, investigations showed that the suspected hoodlums deliberately removed robust rods, alloy reinforcements, cables and different structural materials indispensable to the integrity of the bridge.

It described the enactment arsenic a superior menace to nationalist information and said it besides undermines the government’s concern successful captious infrastructure.

“This transgression enactment poses a superior menace to nationalist information and undermines the government’s concern successful captious infrastructure,” the connection said.  

The government...

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