TRAFFIC ROBBERY: OGUN POLICE COMMAND BANS HAWKING ON LONG BRIDGE
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By Adeola Abdullah
The Ogun State Police Command on Thursday announced that it has banned hawking of goods on the Long Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
In a statement signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO); Abimbola Oyeyemi, he said the ban is one of the steps taken by the Command to tackle incessant traffic robberies on that portion of the expressway.
Oyeyemi 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.”
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