Calm returns to Obalende after gang war

Jude Egbas 13:13 - 11 February 2021

Law and order restored in Obalende on Feb 11, 2021 (Jubril Gawat)

Everyone is now going about their normal business in Obalende.

A semblance of calm has returned to Obalende, a bustling Lagos bus station, after thugs and street urchins engaged in a cudgel and gun battle in the early hours of Thursday, February 11, 2021.

Personnel from the Rapid Response Squad(RRS) and Area A Command were deployed to the troubled and chaotic suburb to restore order on a dusty and humid morning in the nation's commercial capital.

"12:30pm: Situation very calm .. Men of the Rapid Response Squad (@rrslagos767), Area A command, Onikan Area Command are all on ground ... Everyone going about their duties," the Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos Governor on New Media, Jubril Gawat, shared in a tweet.

[OBALENDE]: 12:30pm: Situation very calm .. Men of the Rapid Response Squad (@rrslagos767), Area A command, Onikan Area Command are all on ground ... Everyone going about their duties. @jidesanwoolu @Prince_Muyen @Gidi_Traffic pic.twitter.com/FqyotduDdp
— Jubril A. Gawat (@Mr_JAGs) February 11, 2021