Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Police Command arrested five men with incriminating materials in Ikeja, as the Local Government elections got underway.

Police Public Relations Officer, Olarinde Famous-Cole who confirmed the arrests, said the suspects claimed to be agents of a political party.

Famous-Cole, an Assistant Superintendent of Police said they were handed over to the Area F Command, which would send them to the special team for election crimes at the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigations.

Meanwhile, security agencies, including the police, military, Security and Civil Defence Corps and Immigration, have deployed their personnel to strategic locations in different parts of Lagos to ensure peaceful local government elections.

Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission is conducting Chairmanship and Councillorship elections in its 20 local government areas and 37 local council development areas.

Twelve political parties are participating the election.

They are: Accord Party (AP), Action Alliance (AA), Alliance for Democracy ( AD ), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP ), Labour Party (LP) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

The others are United Democratic Party (UDP), United Progressive Party (UPP), Kowa Party (KP), National Action Council (NAC) and Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM).