The Task-Force on Environmental and Special Offences Unit, Lagos State, has arrested about 22 suspected underaged hoodlums and 35 others in Oshodi.
Its chairman, Mr Bayo Sulaiman, said the operation followed a report on the nefarious activities of under-aged hoodlums in the area.
He said officials of the Office of Youth and Social Department were invited to sort out the under-aged among the suspected hoodlums and take them to remand homes.
Sulaiman said the under-aged would first be taken to the “family court,” adding that if convicted, they would be taken to remand homes. Sulaiman said the task-force did not jail under-aged children as being speculated in some quarters.
Sulaiman said government was determined to rid the state of hoodlums whose activities would no longer be condoned.
He debunked the claim that the task-force took some underaged children to Badagry Prison.
The government always ensured that they, sha said, were taken to the remand homes through the Office of Youth and Social Department. Sulaiman said the 35 others would be arraigned in court.
