The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two armed robbers in two separate incidences in Ikotun and Olodi-Apapa areas of the State.
This was just as the operatives recovered gun, jewellery, laptop and 18 mobiles phones from the robbers.
The robbers – Bashir Wasiu, 22, from Oyo State and Tunde Adedeji, 23, from Abeokuta, Ogun State – were arrested in Olodi-Apapa around 6:35am on July 19, 2016 and Ikotun on July 18, 2016 around 4:33am respectively.
Bashir had on early Tuesday morning in company of his two other members waylaid Viho Segun at his residence’s car park, snatching his documents, phones and N15,000 at gun point, before leading him to his flat intending to collect more valuables from his family.
At the Segun’s flat, Bashir threatened to kill him in the presence of his children and wife if they fail to produce more valuables.
When the wife refused to surrender what they wanted, Bashir smashed Segun’s head with the butt of his gun and beat the wife to a pulp.
Explaining what happened, Segun stated: “When he started beating my wife, I summoned courage to engage him.
“As soon as we started fighting, his colleague took to his heels.
“He too tried to run, but I held him and I called out to neighbours, seized his gun and just in the nick of time, RRS officers on patrol arrived and they arrested him.”
According to the suspect: “We have been monitoring Viho.
“We know he goes to work early in his car and we decided to ambush him.
“We were three.
“Michael and I followed him into his flat to collect more money, while Joseph was monitoring the situation outside.
“The three of us met at a point near boundary in Ajegunle.
“That is where we plan and set out for our operations.
“We operate early in the morning and late evening.”
For Tunde Adedeji, his 10-member robbery team invaded Muslim and Omotayo Streets, where they robbed all the occupants of the three buildings they targeted.
Two of the three buildings are on Muslim Street, while the third building is on Omotayo Street.
Over 25 robbery victims residing in the three buildings narrated their ordeals in the hands of the 10-man robbery gang when they besieged RRS Headquarters in Alausa after reports filtered to them that RRS officials arrested one of the robbery suspects.
Most of the robbery victims sustained several machete cuts in the head and body.
The robbery victims, who came to Alausa in three fully loaded commercial buses, were invited one after the other to identify the suspect and also identify their belongings from the 18 mobile phones, trinkets and assorted jewellery recovered from the back-pack of the suspect.
Explaining how they planned and carried out the robbery operation, Adedeji said: “At about 12 midnight on this fateful day, Sadiq, Sule, Ijoba, myself and six others, whose names I don’t know, met and discussed about the robbery.
“I was invited into the operation by Sadiq.
“We met at Ikotun Egbe.
“We discussed the plan and at around 2am.
“We converged at Ikotun Roundabout.
“The arms we used for the operation were cutlasses, wood and sticks.
“None of had a gun.
“We used legs to break doors and took phones, jewellery, laptops from our victims.
“All the recovered items in my hand were from the victims.
“Sule and I were coming from the operation around 4am when a local security man intercepted us.
“He collected Sule’s bag.
“We ran away just as he was opening the bag.
“But I was later arrested by RRS officials on patrol after seeing the content of my bag.
“This is my second operation with the team.
“In June, we also robbed another house in Ikotun.
“We also took from them phones and money.
:We sell all what we take to one guy called Tablet.
“Sule normally calls him on phone after the operation and we meet him at Olugbede in Egbeda area.”
While Bashir Wasiu was transferred to SARS office in Ikeja, Adedeji was transferred to Ikotun Police Station along with the recovered items for further investigation.
Speaking on the robbery, the spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the arrest.
Badmos added that the police is not resting on its oars.
She stressed that the Command would continue to work round the clock to reduce crime in the state.
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