File: State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab
The Lagos State Government has intensified its crackdown on street begging and related public nuisances, with 226 beggars apprehended during a fresh enforcement exercise carried out across the state.
The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a post shared on his official X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday.
According to Wahab, the arrests were made during a joint operation involving the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Task Force and the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps.
“In continuation of the ongoing daily clean-up and enforcement exercise across the State, a total of 226 beggars were apprehended earlier today by a joint team comprising the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Task Force and the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps,” the commissioner stated.
