{"id":39923,"date":"2024-07-03T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagos-flood-area-boys-extorting-n100-arrested-to-be-prosecuted-video\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:04:30","slug":"lagos-flood-area-boys-extorting-n100-arrested-to-be-prosecuted-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagos-flood-area-boys-extorting-n100-arrested-to-be-prosecuted-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos flood: \u2018Area boys\u2019 extorting N100 arrested, to be prosecuted [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Some touts extorting N100 from pedestrians before crossing a makeshift bridge at the Trade Fair area of Lagos State have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this via his X page on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wahab disclosed that those arrested would be prosecuted in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke in response to a complaint by an X user, about the touts extorting pedestrians amid the heavy rainfall in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, he wrote: \u201dFollowing a complaint made by #ARISE0214, miscreants charging people for using the makeshift crossover bridge at Tradefair this morning have been arrested by the operatives of Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps #LAGESCOfficial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be prosecuted according to the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that several areas have been affected in Lagos State by the heavy downpour.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy downpour had left several commuters stranded.<\/p>\n<p>Watch video\u2026..<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Following a complaint made by @ARISE0214 , miscreants charging people for using the makeshift crossover bridge at Tradefair this morning have been arrested by the operatives of Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps @LAGESCOfficial . They will be prosecuted according to the\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/jI3RnH9OsV pic.twitter.com\/DJM4lhjKEA<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tokunbo Wahab (@tokunbo_wahab) July 3, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lagos flood: \u2018Area boys\u2019 extorting N100 arrested, to be prosecuted [VIDEO]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some touts extorting N100 from pedestrians before crossing a makeshift bridge at the Trade Fair area of Lagos State have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19766,384,15],"tags":[714,17279,3246,1156,19768,227,164,387,16049,180,19767],"class_list":["post-39923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lagos-flood","category-metro","category-news","tag-video","tag-area","tag-arrested","tag-boys","tag-extorting","tag-flood","tag-lagos","tag-metro","tag-n100","tag-news","tag-prosecuted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}