Seven Senior Secondary School students in Surulere area of Lagos state will today appear before the Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on the charge of hooliganism, criminal and breach of public peace.
The accused are students from Iponri Senior High School, Akinto Senior High School, Stadium High School and Oloye Comprehensive College, all within Surulere and Orile axis of Lagos.
Newsmen gathered from the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Iponri Police Station, Mr Fasesan Ibrahim that the suspects were some of the gangs terrorizing and molesting innocent citizens after school hours.
The DPO told Newsmen that the students have always been causing trouble every Friday at Costain, Alaka and Orile areas. “The last incident that led to their arrest on May 19 was the attack of some innocent persons with cutlasses and other dangerous weapons. But they were released to their parents on bail, with a view to produce them at the station for prosecution due to their ages’’
According to the DPO, the police was on the trail of one of the students who was released on bail to his mother but escaped. And also surveillance is on Gbaja Boys’ High School and Stadium Senior Secondary School, Surulere for similar cases.
