The Lagos state Environment Sanitation and Special Offences Taskforce on Friday intercepted a truck laden with 123 men and 48 motorcycles coming from Jigawa state.
The information was given by a member of the public who raised a security concern about the manner with which the passengers of the truck conducted themselves which brought about the seizure of the truck.
The truck was intercepted and its occupants were moved to the office of the taskforce in Oshodi for further interrogation.
Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce, Yinka Egbeyemi said the trailer was accosted in the wee hours of Friday, after a security alert from the public.
He said his team swiftly responded to the information, which led to the seizure of the truck and its occupants at Agege area of Lagos.
Egbeyemi said that they have been interrogated and have found out that most of the truck’s occupants were coming from Jigawa State, with 48 of them claiming to own the motorcycles. And others claimed they came to Lagos in search of greener pastures.
One of the detained occupants, Shuaibu Haruna, said he left Jigaawa State to work in Lagos with his motorcycle. He claimed to have a wife and a son, but said he needed to double his income to cater for his family.
Haruna said he intended to stay in Isolo area and had already paid N7,000 for accommodation.
Another occupant, Mohammed Ibrahim, said he left his base in the Northern part of the country to keep himself busy after finishing his farm work. He said he was going to Badagry to join his brother.
However, Egbeyemi said the Lagos Police Command had directed that a fact-finding panel be constituted to profile the detained occupants of the truck, but he added that nothing incriminating was found on them apart from the motorcycles.