The Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Police Command yesterday arrested five men with incriminating materials in Ikeja, as the local government elections got underway. The spokesman for the command, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Famous-Cole said that the suspects, who claimed to be agents to a political party, were arrested with incriminating materials at 8.30a.m.
Meanwhile, security agencies, including the police, military, Security and Civil Defence Corps and Immigration, have deployed their personnel to strategic locations in different parts of Lagos to ensure peaceful local government elections. A senior police officer who sought anonymity, told NAN that the area command observed that some residents were flouting the restriction order.