Some of the men and the truck laden with motorbikes at the Taskforce HQ in Oshodi.
Source: TwitterThe 123 men from Jigawa State who were detained by the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences have sued the Lagos State Government for unlawful detention and seizure of their motorcycles.
The men were intercepted along Moshalashi Road, Agege alongside 48 motorcycles in a truck, which was coming from Jigawa State but were later released The arrest had sparked a heated debate on social media over the manner in which the men were paraded and interrogated in front of the media.
The 123 men represented by Mr. Abba Hikima and other lawyers, also prayed the court to mandate the respondents to release to their seized motorcycles numbering 48, the truck conveying them, their wears and any other goods belonging to them in custody.
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