The Lagos State Task Force has arrested 28 miscreants and 15 illegal street traders at various locations around Alausa and the African Shrine vicinity.
The Chairman of the Agency, Olayinka Egbeyemi, said this in a statement by the agency’s Head of Public Affairs Unit, Adebayo Taofiq, on Sunday in Lagos
“Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit, over the weekend, raided all streets within Central Business District including surroundings of the ‘African Shrine’, Alausa, Ikeja. According to the chairman, the night operation was carried out around African Shrine where sales of hard drugs like Tramadol, Codeine, Skunk, Weed, Illegal Mixed Liquor and Assorted Food take place.“These consumable and non-consumable items are freely sold on the streets in defiance of security agencies and government authority,” he said.
One of the arrested miscreants, Tunde Babalola, who was caught with a bag of substance suspected to be Indian hemp, confirmed that he had been selling hard drugs for eight years.
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