Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force have arrested two hundred and ten hoodlums and impounded one hundred and twenty-five motorcycles around Iludun Town, New Oko-Oba area of Agege, Lagos.

According to the agency, the enforcement operation which was carried out based on complaints by different communities around the area also demolished ninety-eight illegal shanties built on drainage alignment and road set-backs.

Its Chairman, Olayinka Egbeyemi, who led the enforcement team, said the arrested hoodlums were those recently dislodged by the agency along railway behind Abattoir at Agege.

Egbeyemi, a Chief Superintendent of Police said the hoodlums terrorised the communities both day and night by robbing them of their valuables such as phones, wallets and jewelries.

He said it was an eyesore as the dislodged miscreants and street urchins were freely smoking and selling Indian hemp around residential premises where they had underage school girls and boys.

Egbeyemi said ninety-eight demolished illegal shanties and containarised shops within abattoir and adjourning streets aside being on the landscape and harbouring criminals, were contributing to the under-growth of health, environment and safety issues in and around Agege area.

He confirmed that over one hundred and twenty-five motorcycles plying restricted routes around the communities were impounded by the agency during the enforcement operations.

The Chairman also confirmed that two hundred and ten arrested miscreants and street urchins were immediately charged to court on the directive of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal.

Imohimi directed further that Egbeyemi must continue to monitor the communities against any likely re-union of other notorious miscreants and street urchins who escaped during the enforcement operations.

Egbeyemi, who implored community leaders to be watchful of their immediate environment hinted that areas where the dislodged miscreants and street urchins carried out their nefarious activities and erected illegal shanties included Pipeline-way, Agric Road, Olaofe Road and Mofoladayo Drives.