Traffic Robbers Ignore Police As They Intensify Efforts In Operations

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, may have rejigged the Command’s strategies to tackle the activities of traffic robbers, but that did not deter the robbers from their normal operations in the State.

P.M.EXPRESS findings revealed that the robbers ignored the Police threat and continued their operations in various areas including Lagos Island, Ikeja, Oshodi, Ikotun, Ketu, Mile Two, Yaba, Orile, among others.

However, the Command has been arresting traffic robbers, who terrorise and dispossess innocent people of their belongings in the state while many of them are being kept at bay due to the consistency and commitment of the Command in tackling the menace and other forms of criminality in the state. 

But the challenge is that when they are arrested and detained, there may not be enough space to keep them as the Courts are on strike. So they may have to be released and they will go back to their normal businesses.

Despite the frustration and the Command’s anti crime measures, the Police operatives attached to the Strike Team of the Command, on 1st May, 2021, at 2pm, arrested eleven (11) suspected cultists and traffic robbers, who were attacking and dispossessing innocent people of their belongings at Railway Crossing, Ikeja Along, Ikeja-Lagos.

The operatives, who responded to a distress call from one of the victims (name withheld), raced to the area and arrested some of the suspects in action while others were arrested at their hideouts around Ikeja Along. They have confessed to the crime. The suspects also revealed that they attack their targets with iron rods, guns, cutlasses and charms during operations.

This was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, who stated that in the course of Police investigation, the suspects revealed one of their receivers, one Idris Adamu, m, 42, who was immediately arrested at Alade Market, Lagos State. 

“A gold necklace of one of the victims and many other suspected stolen items like phones, necklaces, watches etc were recovered from him. Other victims of their robbery operation on the said date have been identified and assisting the Police in their investigation.”

Adejobi said that the Police operatives are presently interrogating the suspects in order to extract more information on their mode of operations, membership and accomplices so as to apprehend other members of the gang and those who conspire with them in committing the dastardly act in the area and across the state. 

He gave the names of the suspects:  Sadiq Masaki, m, 22, Oladimeji Olatunbosun, m, 24, Adam Hassan, m, 21, Tunde Afolayan,m, 24, Michael Ademola, m, 22, Olamide Johnson, m, 20, Abiodun Opeyemi, m, 22, Oluseyi Agbaje, m, 21, Daniel Ayomide, m, 20 and Adebayo Tobi, m, 21.

He said that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that the Strike Team profiles the suspects and go after their gang members and conspirators as the Command will not spare anyone who engages in any act of criminality, no matter its magnitude.

The Police boss also directed that the Commander RRS, the Commander Task Force and other Tactical Commanders should sectorise the state for easy operation and get rid of traffic robbers and other criminals in order to accord perfect and excellent service delivery as well as effective security to all and sundry in Lagos State.