Hoodlums Vandalise Streetlight Poles On Third Mainland Bridge

Suspected hoodlums have vandalised streetlight poles on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the hoodlums were sighted by passers-by who immediately notified the police.

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The incident which happened at about 4:45 pm on Thursday was said to be the handwork of miscreants who are in the business of destroying public properties.

Upon receiving the information, men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State Police Command stormed the scene of the vandalization.

The hoodlums, on sighting the vehicles of the RRS officers escaped abandoning the cut metals.

A statement from the RRS reads: “Yesterday, around 4.45 p.m. RRS Officers on patrol of Iyana Oworo were reliably informed that some miscreants were vandalizing part of the streetlight poles on the median of Third Mainland Bridge.”

“The officers raced to the scene. The 3 suspects on sighting the patrol team bolted abandoning the cut metals.”

The police said they recovered items from the scene which included “20 heavy slabs of metal and 10 big bolts and nuts.”

The incident raised several reactions from Lagosians who questioned the direction in which the hoodlums could have escaped on the Third Mainland Bridge.

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“Is it possible for them to run away, and where would they run into. Except they jump into the water that the police could not catch them,” Mr Kunle Adejare commented.

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