The Lagos State Police Command says it arrested 32 suspects: 17 cultists, 11 traffic robbers, two armed robbers and two impersonators, in one week.
The Command’s spokesperson, Superintendent of Police Benjamin Hundeyin, gave the figures on Thursday.
He spoke when he paraded the suspects before newsmen at the police command headquarters in Ikeja.
Hundeyin said that two of the suspects belonged to a gang using police uniform to kidnap young men driving flashy cars and libelling them Yahoo Boys.
He said that the two suspects were arrested at Oshodi while acting as traffic managers and attempting to arrest a woman for alleged traffic offence.
The image maker said that the woman raised an alarm that led to their arrest, while their accomplices escaped.
Hundeyin said that the command had been on the trail of the suspects after a viral video called for attention of the police and members of the public to their criminal activities.
He praised the man who sent out the viral video, urging other members of the public to emulate him.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the viral video of three minutes and 37 seconds showed a man, who claimed to be a lawyer, calling the attention of the police and members of the public to a gang’s activities.
In the video, the man said that one of his clients fell victim of the gang members, who impersonated the police and labelled the client a Yahoo Boy.
The man, in the video, said that the gang members took his client into their car and drove him around Lagos State for six hours without going to any police station.
He added: “At the end of the day, they collected his phones and searched and found N2.5 million in his account.
“They forced him at gunpoint to call a bureau de change to which he transferred the money and the bureau de change, in turn, transferred the dollar equivalent to their contact account and left him with only N10,000.
“I want to use this medium to inform the police that there are some people who are using police uniform to kidnap young people and fleece them.”
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