Police rescue 38 foreign nationals from suspected mob attack in Lagos

Lagos State Police Command has rescued 38 overseas nationals from a suspected mob onslaught successful the Epe country of Lagos and commenced an probe into alleged amerciable migration activities.

Commissioner of Police, Fatai Tijani, disclosed this on Tuesday while addressing journalists astatine the bid office successful Ikeja.

According to the constabulary commissioner, the rescue cognition was carried retired connected June 17 aft information operatives intervened to avert a imaginable breakdown of instrumentality and bid involving overseas nationals.

Tijani said the radical comprised citizens of Chad, Burkina Faso, Benin Republic, Mali, Togo, Cameroon and Ghana.

“The overseas nationals were incapable to springiness satisfactory explanations regarding their beingness and activities successful Nigeria,” helium said.

He explained that the individuals are presently undergoing profiling astatine the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, pending their transportation to the Nigeria Immigration Service for further processing.

“We privation to decently illustration them and find whether determination are transgression elements connected to their activities earlier handing them implicit to migration authorities,” the constabulary commissioner stated.

According to him, preliminary findings showed that 20 of the overseas nationals allegedly entered Nigeria illegally, portion 18 others possessed valid EC...