The Police Command in Lagos State has debunked reports that claimed that hundreds of Boko Haram suspects were apprehended in Lagos.
The command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, refuted this in a statement on Friday.
“The outcome of the investigation reveals that there is nowhere throughout Lagos State that the group mentioned in the report – Boko Haram – was seen, sighted, or arrested.
“Furthermore, in the trailer park communities mentioned, the leaders, operators, and drivers in the indicated places in the report clarified to the police that there were no such elements of Boko Haram seen or arrested in those localities.
“The command, notwithstanding, deployed surveillance police detectives, the Lagos State Police Intelligence Department (SID), and other formations of the Force to the mentioned places for verification of the claim.
“No one confirmed the presence or arrest of such group members as reported in the write-up throughout Lagos State.
“Therefore, the report in its entirety is false, malicious, and ill-intended to cause fear and apprehension in the minds of the public,” he said.
Hundeyin enjoined residents to disregard and discountenance the write-up as untrue and a figment of the writer’s imagination, which was very unfortunate and despicable and should be outrightly ignored.
