Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences Unit, on Monday afternoon, tranquilised and removed a two-year-old lion from a residential building at number 229, Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, VI, Lagos.

Thelagostimes had earlier reported that the lion kept in a cage was said to be owned by an India National living in the apartment.

According to the chairman of the state taskforce, Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, Yinka Egbeyemi, the lion was removed at about 1. pm and relocated to one of the zoos in the state for proper habitation and tendering.

“There is no cause for the alarm to the people living in and around Muri-Okunola, V.I as men of the agency and officials of the relevant state ministries evacuated the lion and was taken to one of the zoos in the state for proper habitation and tendering”, he said.

Egbeyemi, however, said the Indian national who owns the lion has been invited for questioning but is yet to honour the invitation.

“Administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State will not condone any act inimical to the security of lives and property of citizenry”, he added.