*Injures 2, impounds 200 motorcycles, recovers firearm
By; RAYMOND TEDUNJAYE, Lagos
Efforts by some suspected hoodlums to overrun a police station in Lagos at the early hours of Monday has been repelled by the police, with two of the suspects sustaining gun shot injuries.
Unspecified numbers of the attackers, said to be motorcycle operators were said to have been arrested, with a locally made firearm recovered and 200 motorcycles impounded from them.
The hoodlums, according to report, had stormed Ipaja Police Division after police officers commenced the day’s enforcement of the existing ban on motorcycles in Lagos State.
The spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the attack in a statement made available to journalists.
According to him, “The attackers, who came in their hundreds, stormed the station with dangerous weapons, shooting at the officers and attempting to overrun the station.
” While officers and men of the division held their ground, reinforcement came from the Area Command and the Rapid Response Squad (RRS). Two of the attackers were fatally injured during the attack.
” However, this did not deter the officers from accomplishing their mandate as over two hundred motorcycles were impounded and some of the attackers arrested, with one locally made firearm retrieved.
” The Lagos State Police Command will not be cowed into abdicating its responsibilities of enforcement of all duly passed laws and maintenance of law and order within the society.”
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