123 Northerners detained after entering Lagos [Photos] - Daily Post Nigeria

123 Northerners detained after entering Lagos [Photos]

One hundred and twenty three petty traders from Northern part of the country have been detained by the Lagos State government.Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce, Yinka Egbeyemi, said a trailer conveying them was intercepted after a security alert from the public.

“While my team was on operation, we got information from the public that some people had entered into Lagos in trailer loaded with over 300 people. “We have interrogated most of the truck’s occupants; from the information we gathered, some of them said they were coming from Jigawa State, with 48 of them claiming to own seized motorcycles.Egbeyemi said the Lagos Police Command had directed that a fact-finding panel be constituted to profile the detained occupants of the truck.One of the detained occupants, Shuaibu Haruna, said he left Jigawa State to work in Lagos with his motorcycle.

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