Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three traffic robbers at Ikeja City Mall, just as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Mile 2 Park assisted the police in arresting four notorious traffic robbers in the area.
The arrests in Ikeja and Mile 2 areas were carried out on Thursday following the intensification of patrol by the RRS.
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, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, had on a tip off on the activities of traffic robbers in Mile 2 on Thursday afternoon deployed plain cloth policemen 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.
One of the suspects, Nurudeen Suraj, was a week ago arrested and detained at Agboju Police Station.
He explained that he was released from prison two months ago.
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, on most occasion pretend 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 in arresting the suspects, stressing: “Our communities would become safer if people cooperated with the police.”
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