According to several
reports, the operatives of the Lagos State Task Force nabbed a notorious
traffic robber who pretended to be selling ‘Soft Drinks and pure water’ to
motorists at Oshodi bridge.
SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, Chairman of the Lagos State
Task Force disclosed that the traffic robber was apprehended by officers of the
Agency who were positioned at Oshodi bridge to check criminal activities of
these traffic robbers.
He stated that the traffic
robber was arrested after he had broken a driver’s side screen of a Toyota
Corolla car with a hammer and snatched 2 phones and a bag containing valuables.
The Chairman stated further
that immediately the suspect was arrested and every items stolen recovered the
owner was called on the phone to pick up her bag and 2 phone at Task Force
office, Bolade, Oshodi.
SP Egbeyemi who commended
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for providing necessary modernised security tools,
however, assured members of the public that the Agency will not relent in its
efforts to completely rid Oshodi and the State as a whole of such unscrupulous
elements activities.
He confirmed that the Lagos
State Commissioner of Police CP EDGAL IMOHIMI has directed that the arrested
traffic robber be charged to court for prosecution and other syndicates in this
shady act should be arrested within Oshodi and it environs.
Arrested traffic robber Mr
Oluwole Kayode (27 years) who hails from Abeokuta in Ogun State confessed to
having been using a hammer on motorists who refused to voluntarily release
their belongings during traffic at Oshodi bridge.
“Yes i used hammer to broke
her vehicle side screen because the woman refused to surrender her bag and 2
phones when I approached her during traffic when it was raining”
The owner of the snatched
bag and 2 phones Mrs Hadizatul Jiddah commended the Lagos State Commissioner of
Police for his efforts of ridding Lagos of crime and State Task Force for the
prompt action taken.
“If not for the prompt
interventions of personnel of the Lagos State Task Force my bag and 2 phones
would have gone”
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