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By Christopher Oji
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, AIG Olohundare Jimoh has warned against making false reports on the Lagos State Task Force on the Environment and Other related Offences.
The AIG waned that the police would prosecute anyone who publishes false reports against the police and other units of the force.
At a press conference yesterday at his office , GRA Ikeja,the AIG took a swipe on a recent viral report of extortion against Task force by an online platform, saying that it was done to smear the image of the Agency that is doing a good job to maintain sanity on our roads .
AIG Jimoh stressed that the report against Task Force was malicious and untrue,describing the unit as very vital in the maintenance of law and order in the state .
He said: ” The Lagos State Task Force on the Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Enforcement has been doing very great in this state in ensuring that there is sanity on our roads and equally sanity in our offices and in every area of our engagement throughout the state.
” The agency and other complementary organisations are responsible for ensuring orderliness in virtually all the public places in Lagos State to ensure that people don’t violate traffic rules without consequences and that people don’t occupy spaces that are meant for public use and for public purposes and to equally ensure that people don’t generally take laws into their hands.
” Mind you, Lagos is a state of population of 23 to 25 million people and there’s no other state that desire and needed orderliness like Lagos in this country because of the huge population in Lagos.
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” So if Task Force is not working well, all of us will be able to see it but I want to beat my chest and let the media and the public know that the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and those who are equally responsible for Special Offences Enforcement units are doing their best in the state and we are talking to you ,the media to help us impress it on the mind of all Lagosians on the need to be law abiding” .
” But from Friday to the weekend, there’s a singular incident which went viral on an online media platform.The handler of the online platform is not new to the TaskForce team.
” He at one time or the other intervened on behalf of people that were arrested in the act of committing environmental sanitation offences and other special offences for which the task force is established to enforce and they have all the time informed them that everybody must comply with the law and nobody is above the law , no matter how lowly place or highly place.
” I so much believe because of this sentiment for him not to have his way, he had decided to go online to tarnish the good work of the Lagos State Task Force of Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Enforcement unit by posting out videos indicating that some of the task force personnel are collecting money which I have directed a full scale investigation into and found out that it’s not correct.
” It’s far from the truth and it’s malicious in all righteousness. We want all news outfits, not only the online media, equally some of our colleagues here to know that such a publication is malicious in its own entirety and members of the public should equally from this press conference know that what the online platform has said is nothing but misdirecting the mind of the public and informing the public and equally malicious intention to deliberately cause aspersion on the good name of Task force.
” So, I want to state further that the Lagos state police command wishes to brief members of the media and the general public on the circumstance surrounding the incident at Ikorodu , which I mentioned earlier on which resulted in the viral video involving operatives of Lagos State security task force.
“Precisely at about 6:30 am of March 13,2026, on Friday, officers of the task force were on routine patrol on what we call the anti driving against traffic enforcement.
“People take the delight because of maybe some traffic in one area of Lagos state, choose on their own, to drive against traffic in another area. So they go there to ensure that people comply with this traffic regulation.
” The driver of the vehicle was intercepted when he was trying to make a wrongful turn against traffic in violation of regulations of Lagos state.
” In an attempt to evade arrest, the driver reversed his vehicle and ran into an oncoming commercial minibus that was going on his own direction, thereby, damaging the bus and endangering the lives of those who were inside the bus and equally the lives of police that work with the Safer Highway Patrol of the Lagos State Police Command.
“This is a clear violations of the law. The safer highway patrol subsequently handed over the driver and the vehicle to the Lagos State Task Force for further investigation and prosecution.
” The damaged minibus was equally towed to the Task Force office in Oshodi while the suspect, who is now the offender in the matter was taken to Alausa for further investigation and for proper custody.
“During the enforcement, the suspect visibly resisted arrest and obstructed traffic causing gridlock and putting a lot of other women in Lagos and equally other people going to their means of livelihood into temporary lockage without being able to proceed to where they were going. The gridlock along this corridor paralysed traffic and other commercial activities in the area. The offender was charged to Court, granted bail, but he is yet to fulfill his bail condition . We have invited the poster of the viral video to come for discussion.”
