Lagos state police command arrests 9 suspected traffic armed robbers
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested nine suspected traffic armed robbers along Y-Junction, located at old toll gate in Ketu vicinity of the State, having attacked a couple on the busy road.
Penpushing reports that, the Command Public Relations, Muyiwa Adejobi in a statement on Friday said the operatives’ attached to Ketu Division arrested the suspects on December 31,2020.
‘The suspects had attacked one Mr Adejare Adetayo and wife in the traffic at the area when police detectives on undercover operation along the area went after the hoodlums and arrested nine (9) with their operational weapons’, he said.
Penpushing further reports that, the police spokesman identified the suspects as include: Oluseyi Afolabi(19),Adeyemo Ayomide(18), Francis Latifa (19), Rilwan Raji(23), Ayomide Oyediran (20), Rasheed Ibrahim (22), Hamzat Abdullahi(19), Musa Gbadamosi (20) and Seun Lasisi(32).
The Command Public Relations Officer said long knives and other dangerous weapons were recovered from them, adding that the Commissioner of Police has directed that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department(CID), Panti, Yaba, for proper investigation.
The Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu, while commending the police operarives for the successful operation and arrest of the hoodlums, reassured Lagosians of adequate security and public safety within the length and breadth of the state.
Penpushing also reports that, in the same vein, in the spirit of the season, the commissioner felicitates with Lagosians, officers and men of the command, stakeholders in the security sector and sister security agencies on the New Year celebration.
Meanwhile,the police boss admonished Lagosians to embrace peace and obey all laws of the land as the police and other security agencies in the state are ever ready to discharge their duties effectively.
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