CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
A suspected member of motorcycle armed robbery gang, a.k.a Okada robber, Yusuf Lammeed, has expressed his gang’s challenges since they formed the gang and started robbing members of the public in Lagos State.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspect, Lammeed, expressed his concern and challenges after he was caught while attempting to rob with some members of his gang with a motorcycle.
He confessed that he and members of his gang had been robbing unsuspecting members of the public in the early hours of the day across Lagos State for over six months and lamented that their major challenge was the banning and restriction of motorcycles in the State.
Lammeed disclosed that although the ban on the operations of Okada in the State had made the business a lot more difficult, they still carried out operations at intervals to steal phones and sell to their dealers in Mushin popularly known as Segun Scatter, Steven Memory, Kalimantan and Ejo.
The Police stated that Lammeed was being investigated by operatives of the Lagos State Task Force after he was arrested while trying to rob a lady, who stood at Ikeja-Along Bus Stop waiting for a bus.
They were unlucky however, as the lady screamed for help when she was approached by the suspects alerting the officers on patrol along that axis, which led to a hot pursuit where Lammeed fell from the bike and was apprehended.
The Chairman of the Agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, confirmed the arrest and stated that the Agency would do all within its power to ensure that crime will be made non-lucrative for anyone still involved in it.
“Crime is not a career. We have made several efforts in the past and will intensify the efforts to ensure criminal elements in the State either flee from here or turn over a new leaf. We will be all out in 2023 to achieve our mandate of zero tolerance to criminality in the State” he said.
Jejeloye urged miscreants, traffic offenders, environmental offenders, car snatchers, burglars, pickpockets, one-chance operators, etc to rethink this year or they will have themselves to blame at the end of the day. He appealed to residents to report any criminal activities around them to the nearest police Station or the Agency.
Jejeloye assured Lagosians that a crack team had been assigned to fish out the other gang members who fled the scene of the arrest and also apprehend the buyers of their loot. The suspect arrested will be charged to Court accordingly.