Lagos Police give details on mufti-wearing armed operativesÂ
Lagos police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, has allayed the fear of concerned members of the public about the strange appearance of a mufti-wearing operative sighted within the metropolis.
Hundeyin was reacting to a Twitter enquiry by one Ayo-Bankole Akintujoye on whether the dreaded disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had returned.
The user with the handle @AyoBankole tweeted, “Is SARS back on Lagos roads? Or why are skinny jeans, armed robber looking, gun blazing unmarked men standing on the highway along Lekki-Epe express?
In his response, Hundeyin stated that the operative was part of the police command’s “tactical team”.
He added the operative had stopped to control traffic encountered on their way to a special mission.
“This officer is a member of the tactical units recently reorganized by @LagosPoliceNG CP Idowu Owohunwa to tackle cultism headlong in Lagos State, ” he said, adding that the team was responsible for the arrest of 42 cultists recently.
“On this day, they were going for an assignment and ran into a heavy gridlock. Due to how time-sensitive the assignment was, they disembarked to clear the traffic. While a few of them were directing cars to ease the gridlock, others like the one pictured were ‘on guard.’”
