Soldiers targeting hoodlums are currently combing the streets in search of hoodlums
Many residents and passengers have been reportedly stranded in Oshodi, Lagos State, following soldiers’ takeover of major streets in the State commercial area.
It was gathered that the military personnel stormed the area on Thursday morning to avenge the death of an officer of the Nigerian Air Force, who was allegedly mobbed to death by hoodlums.
Many vehicles, especially commercial buses were reportedly destroyed, while some persons were assaulted by the aggrieved security operatives.
Some residents heading to work were trapped in the ensuing violence while students have fled back home.
Traders cleaning up their stores on the day of the weekly sanitation also fled just as some transporters abandoned their vehicles.
Soldiers targeting hoodlums are currently combing the streets in search of hoodlums.
The situation has compounded the traffic woe in the cosmopolitan city as there is currently no movement in and out the part of Oshodi where the rampaging soldiers are.
Oshodi links other major parts of Lagos and a major bus terminal is in that part of the state.
Muyiwa Adejobi, Police Public Relations Officer in the state, is yet to make any official statement regarding the incident as of the time of filing this report.
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