Lagos Police foil riot, arrest 18 hoodlums at Tejuosho Market

By Efe Onodjae

Lagos State Police Command said that it has restored bid and normalcy to Tejuosho Market Phase II, Surulere, pursuing convulsive disturbances allegedly caused by hoodlums who mobilised nether the guise of protesting a powerfulness outage.

According to the Command connected Thursday, the hoodlums vandalised sections of a commercialized slope wrong the marketplace and launched attacks connected policemen connected defender duty.

Police authorities said operatives of the Police Mobile Force (PMF) repelled the onslaught and prevented the thugs from invading some the slope and the marketplace constabulary post, stressing that officers exercised “a precocious level of restraint” contempt provocation.

In a connection signed by Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Babasuyi B. Oluseyi, connected behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Olohundare Jimoh, the Command disclosed that 18 suspects were arrested astatine the scene.

The connection work successful part: “On 18th September, 2025, astatine astir 2:30pm, the Command received a distress telephone that hoodlums and miscreants had started attacking people, damaging goods and properties successful Tejuosho Market. Further accusation revealed that the hoodlums attacked Mobile Policemen guarding a commercialized slope wrong the marketplace who firmly repelled them and prevented them from invading the bank. They were besides prevented from invading the Market Police Post.”

The constabulary chief, it was gathered, instantly deployed further personnel, including accepted policemen and tactical squads, to reconstruct calm successful the area.

Oluseyi added that trading activities resumed afterwards and assured that investigations were ongoing to way different perpetrators.

He further quoted CP Jimoh arsenic informing that convulsive attacks connected information unit and demolition of spot would not beryllium tolerated.
“The suspects are successful custody and volition beryllium prosecuted upon decision of investigations,” the connection added.

The Command urged traders and residents to spell astir their businesses without fear, portion advising members of the nationalist to transmission complaints done the nearest constabulary presumption oregon via its exigency hotlines: 07061019374, 08065154338, 08063299264, 08039344870.

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