The Command spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe, said in a statement in Asaba, that the victims were rescued on Wednesday.
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The suspects were arrested by the police operatives attached to Idimu Division at the heels of the enhanced intelligence emplaced by Surulere and Idimu Divisions with a view to apprehending the suspects who are still suspected to have some arms in their possession.
The directive, which was re-echoed by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has recorded the impoundment of six vehicles by the operatives of RRS in different parts of the State.
This exercise was sequel to the directive of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, that security be beefed up for the Christmas and New Year celebrations.
The suspects, Rasak Babatunde, m, 22 year-old mechanic and Idowu Wasiu, m, 16-year-old tailor, were arrested at their hideout.
The spokesman of the Command, Haruna Mohammed, revealed this in a statement on Sunday.
The suspects, Tunde Olaiya, 24, and Tokunbo Omotola, 26, were arrested in separate encounters in Oshodi Oke.
A woman, who went into labour on Friday during the lockdown occasioned by the Coronavirus Disease at about 3am has been delivered of a baby girl after being rushed to hospital by some concerned operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command.
The search for a middle-aged man who jumped off Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos state into the lagoon on Saturday has been called off.
The suspects, who claimed they were on contract with Ikotun-Igando Local Council Development Area in Alimosho Local Government Area, were arrested on Monday afternoon after receiving a complaint from a victim.
The FCT Police Command on Wednesday while responding to a distress call rescued a one chance robbery suspect from an angry mob who were about to lynch him to death.
An unrepentant suspect who had been arrested and charged for Pickpocketing and Stealing in 2017 by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, Tunde Ajeigbe, was again rearrested by RRS for a similar offence.
The robbers, Gbemi Ogunleye, 45, a fairly used cloth seller in Ijora, and Ini Effiong, 32, a road side Gala hawker in Oshodi, were arrested in early hours of Wednesday after an all night robbery at the resident of one church cleric in Ibafo, Ogun State.
The suspects, Stanley Odachi, 27, and Chuks Oragwu, 31, were arrested on Wednesday while they were luring another victim to an hotel in Igando, Alimosho, Lagos.
A five-member gang of real estate scammers, who were about to fraudulently lease out someone else’s duplex in Lekki Phase 2 to a house seeker for N4.5 million, were on Wednesday arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command at the point of exchange of money and keys.
The suspect, Sadiq Yinusa, 25, of 24, Oluwalogbon Street, Shomolu, Lagos was arrested at the night club (name withheld) in Igbobi, while attempting to rob the club supervisor at around 2:45am on Wednesday.
The suspects – Sodiq Musa, 28, and Saidu Atiku, 34, were arrested at 27, Awolowo Road, Ikeja with three Toyota vehicle brain boxes, while Ridwan Adamu escaped with the fourth box.
Operatives of the Lagos Rapid Response, a unit of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a pick up driver who specializes in buying stolen construction materials from site workers in Lekki area of Lagos and reselling them.
The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three suspected robbers who lured a UBER driver into the bush, strangulated him and made away with his Toyota Camry, 2006 model, just as it recovered two locally made guns and seven live cartridges from another set of suspected robbers on Eko Bridge.
An armed robber operating with okada in Ikorodu, Lagos State and a cable thief were early on Thursday morning arrested separately by officials of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad in different parts of the state.