Seven Notorious Traffic Robbers Busted In Lagos (Photo)

Seven Notorious Traffic Robbers Busted In Lagos (Photo)

Officials of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on Thursday arrested three traffic robbers at Ikeja City Mall and four others in Mile 2 area.

A post on RRS Facebook page said the four suspects in Mile 2 were arrested by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Mile 2 park and handed over to the police.

Four of the suspects, Segun Peters (22), Kabiru Odeh (25), Nurudeen Suraj (22) and Dennis Ikuvbogie (24) were arrested at Mile 2 while having a field day.

Other suspects, Anifowoshe Kolawole (20), Patrick Ameke (21) and John Britto (27) were picked around Ikeja City Mall based on complaints on their illicit activities around the area.

The Commander, Rapid Response Squad (RRS), CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, had on a tip off on the activities of traffic robbers in Mile 2 on Thursday afternoon deployed plain cloth police men to the area to monitor and arrest the suspects.

The NURTW members had hounded down the four suspects before the officers got there. The suspects were thereafter handed over to the police team for investigation and prosecution.

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Those arrested in Ikeja were selectively picked up after a petition initiated by the management of Ikeja City Mall on reported incidences of traffic robbery in the area.

The suspects, who were placed under close monitoring before their arrest this afternoon, on most occasion pretended to be beggars and nose mask vendors.

They used the ploy to rob motorists and pedestrians visiting the complex.

One of the suspects, Anifowsoshe Kolawole, who had been warned on many occasions by policemen pleaded for leniency.

The Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi commended the civilians who provided the intelligence to the police as well as those who assisted the police in arresting the suspects, stressing that, our communities would become safer if people co-operated with the police.

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