The police have arrested 191 suspects in connection with the recent attacks in parts of Lagos and Ogun States.
Mr Frank Mba, the Force Public Relations Officer, confirmed this in a statement on Monday.
Amid the lockdown order, some youths were said to have invaded some homes and shops in parts of Lagos and Ogun, dispossessing residents of their belongings.
Among the places affected are Iyana Ipaja, Ishaga, Ogba and Agege areas of Lagos, as well as Olambe, Giwa Oke-Aro, and Ten-Ten areas of Ogun State.
Residents of some of the communities, however, resorted to keeping vigil around their homes, burning tyres on the roads and streets to ward off the criminals.
The Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Kenneth Ebrimson, in his reaction, insisted that most of the calls they got were false alarm.
Hours later, the Force Public Relations Officer confirmed the arrest of many suspects in a statement.
“A total of one hundred and ninety-one (191) suspects have been arrested in Lagos and Ogun States in connection with the incidents.
“The following exhibits – fifteen (15) locally-made guns, fifty-two (52) live cartridges, forty-two (42) cutlasses and axes, and a large quantity of weeds suspected to be marijuana have been recovered from the hoodlums by the police teams in the Agbado, Ifo, Otta, and Agege axis,” the statement read.
Mba explained that the incidents were activities of hoodlums and street urchins in the border communities between the two states.
He disclosed that the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate deployment of additional intelligence and operational assets of the Force to strengthen security and strengthen public confidence in the affected areas.