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Lagos policemen respond to distress call two hours after robbery
There was panic on Efon Alaye Close, Ojodu-Berger, Lagos, on Saturday, as a four-man robbery gang operated freely in the area and vandalised many vehicles.
PUNCH Metro learnt that a distress call to the 767 emergency line made by one of the residents during the attack around 3.30am did not yield positive results.
An official, who reportedly picked the call, was said to have assured the caller that a team of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command would be deployed in the scene shortly.
The PUNCH correspondent gathered that a police patrol team from the Ojodu Police Station, a short distance away from the scene, later arrived at the area around 5.30am; one and a half hours after the bandits had left.
The PUNCH, December 17, 2018
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