Kirikiri prison wonder: How inmates organised robberies from cells

When the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, on Tuesday, paraded some robbery suspects before newsmen, what he did not disclose about their operations was more than his disclosures.

It has been discovered by police operatives that some recent robbery incidents in the state were actually planned and coordinated by certain inmates of Kirikiri Prisons..

The inmates are said to have continually terrorised residents of Ayobo Ipaja and its surroundings.

Although the Nigerian Prison Service has said that the situation remains largely unsubstantiated and uninvestigated, many of the major armed robbery and car snatching incidents around Ayobo Ipaja and neighbouring Lagos communities have been found by the police to have been coordinated by three inmates of one of the prisons after they had been arrested for similar offences in the past.

Apart from the three inmates, the police in Lagos State, through their Rapid Response Squad, had arrested seven other members of the gang with six exotic vehicles stolen during recent operations of the gang recovered in Awka and Onitsha in Anambra State.

Tribune, October 7, 2017

 

 

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