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Five in-traffic robbers nabbed by Lagos RRS

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Five in-traffic robbers nabbed by Lagos RRS

No less than five in-traffic robbers have been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) attached to the Lagos State Police Command.

The robbers were nabbed in Victoria Island, Ojodu Berger, Oshodi, Obalende and Ilubirin around the state.

The suspects identified as Oyeleke Abdullah (24), Olajide Dipo (17), Saheed Alayande (17), Azeez Yusuph (21) and Oyeniwa Wasiu (18) who all speacialise in attacking and dispossessing members of the public of their valuables in traffic were arrested following an onslaught on in-traffic robbers.

According to a police source, one of the suspects Azeez Yusuph was arrested when some operatives of the RRS’s Decoy Team pretended to have had a broken down car under the Ilubirin Bridge around 4:23 a.m.

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“It was very early in the morning when an undercover policeman pretended as if his vehicle broke down on the bridge while some of his colleagues hid somewhere to ambush the robbers who would come and harass the lone occupant of the vehicle…. The suspect showed up few minutes later trying to collect handset and money from him, that was when we arrested him,” the source said.

Confirming the arrests, the Police Public Relations Officer, said the suspects have been transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba, for further investigation while also noting that the Command was on high alert to curb social miscreants who exploit traffic situations in the metropolis to dispossess Lagosians of their valuables.

 

 

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