The Nigerian Custodian Service have declined taking in part of the 520 suspected hoodlums arrested in connection with the mayhem unleashed on the state in the aftermath of the Lekki tollgate shootings at #EndSARS protesters by soldiers.
The Message International had earlier reported that no fewer than 520 suspects were arrested by the police in relation to arson, murder, stealing and assault, among others, part of whom were arraigned on Wednesday.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, Muyiwa Adejobi, told newsmen that over 200 of the arrested 520 suspects had been arraigned.
They were however returned to the police cell after their arraignment in court, instead of being remanded in prison, as the Nigeria Custodial Service rejected them for challenge of space in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adejobi said, “We have commenced the arraignment of the 520 suspected hoodlums. We have been sharing the suspects to various facilities because it is a state command’s case and the state command has the right to keep the suspects in any of our stations.”
Adejobi said rejecting of suspects by the custodial centre was not peculiar to the suspected hoodlums.
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