The Ogun State command of the Nigeria Police Force, on Thursday, banned hawking on the Kara end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
In a press statement by the state public relations officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, he said the ban was necessary over reports of incessant robbery attacks on the bridge.
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He said, “In view of the road construction work going on at Kara end of long bridge along Lagos-Ibadan expressway, which gives hoodlums opportunity to be attacking innocent members of public on the long bridge. The commissioner of Police CP Lanre Bankole has directed the command’s tactical teams to move to the area and compliment the efforts of the divisional policemen in patrolling the area.
“It has also been discovered that some of the hoodlums are pretending to be hawking goods on the bridge during traffic gridlock and using the opportunity to carry out robbery operations. To this end,the Command is hereby using this medium to warn all those hawking goods on the bridge to quit with immediate effect in order to sanitize the environment and deter the criminals from perpetrating crime on that bridge and anywhere around.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole who was on the said long bridge today for on the spot assessment therefore assured members of the public especially the commuters plying the road of their safety as the command will do everything possible within the ambit of the law to flush out the hoodlums in the area.”
