- Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) arrested a gang of robbers in Lagos
- The police operatives said the robbers were arrested on Thursday, February 14 after robbing some people at College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos
- The Lagos police commissioner who ordered the arrest said the gang will be charged to court as soon as investigations are completed
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a unit of Lagos state police command has arrested a group of robbers believed to have been terrorising College Road, Fagba, and Abattoir areas of the state.
The RRS said the syndicate comprised of young boys with different ethnic origins.
“As for this group of boys, their diversity in terms of language and ethnicity was never a barrier as they were united in forming a gang with the sole interest of robbing Lagosians of their valuables,” the police said in a statement on Sunday, February 17.
Seven suspected armed robbers arrested in Lagos. Credit: RRS
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Knives seized from the armed robbers in Lagos. Credit: RRS
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Legit.ng gathers that the robbers were arrested on Thursday, February 14, at around 9pm at College Road, Ifako – Ijaiye area of Lagos, after they robbed more than five passers-by of their valuables brandishing knives and other harmful objects.
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The suspects’ names are Lekan Akinyemi (23), Chimeze Ofulie( 18), Babangida Abdullahi (22), Abubakar Umaru (30), Samuel Oyinloye (24), Timileyin Oladipupo (27) and Habeeb Olayinka.
All the suspects said they came from different parts of the country but reside in Abattoir, Agege, Lagos.
One of their victims was one Agafe Augustine who was reportedly robbed after he alighted from a taxi at College Road, Ifako Ijaiye. Amongst the items collected from him by the gang were; a smartphone, N14,000 and a handbag.
Agafe said: “I allowed them to rob me because they were many and were holding dangerous objects but I trailed them to an open place before raising alarm. This drew the attention of some RRS officers on patrol in the area and they arrested some of them.
They equally robbed some other victims amongst whom were a lady in company of her boyfriend. They dispossessed them of their phones and stabbed her boyfriend who refused to let go of his mobile phone after parting with his wallet.”
In his confessional statement to the crime, one of the suspects said they specialise in robbing passersby at night collecting their mobile phones, bags, jewellery and wallets.
The police said its investigations revealed that one of the suspects, Timileyin Oladipupo, popularly known as ‘Timi Yahoo’, specialised in working on SIM cards of the stolen phones to determine which ones are internet banking enabled to facilitate the gang access to transferring money from victims' accounts.
The suspect confessed: “I have worked on so many SIM cards given to me by Lekan and other groups in Agege Abbatior and what I do is to further increase our gain from the robbery by transferring victim’s money from their bank accounts after using some software to determine how much is lodged inside their accounts and we also share the proceeds.”
The Lagos state commissioner of police, Mu’azu Zubairu, who ordered the arrest of all the gang members added that they be transferred to SARS for a thorough investigation.
He said that the gang will be charged to court as soon as investigations are completed.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that operatives of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) arrested six men involved in the “shocking, barbaric and indecent assault meted out on a young Nigerian female as shown in a video that recently went viral.”
In a video that went viral on Wednesday, February 6, the men forcefully dragged a naked lady to the ground, spread her leg and put powdered pepper in her private parts, while she screamed for help, begging them to stop.
The video has drawn caused heated reactions on social media, with many Nigerians calling on the Nigeria police to investigate the source of the video and apprehend the men who carried out the barbaric act.
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