The Lagos State Task Force on the Environment and Other Related Special Offences on Thursday arrested 146 miscreants at odd hours under the Oshodi Bridge.
The chairman, Bayo Sulaimon, a Superintendent of Police, who confirmed this to journalists in his office, said the arrests followed complaints from the public that Oshodi was no longer safe at night.
The operation became necessary following complaints from the public that Oshodi was gradually returning to the old order where snatching of bags and looting was the order of the day.
He said 15 of the miscreants, who were minors aged between nine years and 15 years, were also arraigned before the Magistrate's Court in Alausa, Ikeja.
He explained that the miscreants were in two categories, those who claimed they were inside the vehicle, and others caught wondering at various odd locations at that early hour of the next day.
Sulaimon added that the minors would be taken to the juvenile home where further information about their families and states of origin would be obtained from them.
The task force boss disclosed that some of the children explained that they came to Lagos few years ago from Oyo State, Ogun and Kwara in search of greener pasture.
One of the minors (names withheld) said that he ended up on the street last year after his father, a taxi driver who lives at Ikorodu, divorced his mother and married a new wife.
He said he had made several attempts to contact his father on the phone, but each time the father declined to speak with him.
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