{"id":18683,"date":"2024-02-06T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=18683"},"modified":"2024-02-06T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T11:35:38","slug":"51-suspected-highway-robbers-arrested-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/06\/51-suspected-highway-robbers-arrested-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"51 Suspected Highway Robbers Arrested in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Taskforce, under the leadership of Chairman CSP Shola Jejeloye, has arrested 51 individuals suspected to belong to a highway gang notorious for harassing truck drivers along the Apapa\/Oshodi and Lagos\/Badagry Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was conducted on Tuesday morning. Jubril Gawat, Senior Special Assistant on New Media to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, confirmed the arrests via his official social media handle.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are alleged to have used coercive tactics to extort money from truck drivers, claiming affiliation with the now-defunct Lagos State Parks and Garages Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Following the dissolution of the agency&#8217;s Park and Garages Committee in September 2023, coordination of activities across motor parks and garages was handed over to the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Taskforce, under the leadership of Chairman CSP Shola Jejeloye, has arrested 51 individuals suspected to belong to a highway gang notorious for harassing truck drivers along the Apapa\/Oshodi and Lagos\/Badagry Expressway. The operation was conducted on Tuesday morning. Jubril Gawat, Senior Special Assistant on New Media to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, confirmed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":18684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18685,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683\/revisions\/18685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}