A suspected traffic robber
has allegedly swallowed his victim’s wedding ring after threatening to kill her
in the Oshodi area of Lagos State.
The suspect, 19-year-old
Taofeek Adebayo, was on Friday arrested by the men of the Rapid Response Squad
of the Lagos State Police Command at OshodiOke together with his
accomplice,
Toheeb Tijani, 20, shortly after dispossessing two ladies in a grey Sienna SUV
of a gold earring and a set of wedding rings.
Two other suspected traffic
robbers, Samson Oluwa, 20, and Michael Amodu Adamu, 22, were also arrested in
an all-night sting operation in the CMS area of the state.
According to the RRS,
Adebayo and his gang members had pleaded with the two gorgeously dressed ladies
in the Sienna SUV to assist them with money for food.
The ladies were said to
have offered them N100 note, which the suspects rejected.
The driver of the Sienna
SUV, who pleaded anonymity, was quoted as saying, “My colleague and I were
coming from Anthony and heading to Ilasa for our association’s meeting. Three
of the hoodlums came near our vehicle. There was traffic and we could not turn
anywhere. We were scared. They said we should give them money for food. I
reached out to my colleague to give me money.
“She gave me N100, which I
gave them. They rejected it. One of them said, ‘eleyi ki i se owo ti wa’ (this
is not our due). I told them that that was what I had. One of them pulled my
left ear and removed my earring.
“Two of them turned to the
other side of the vehicle. They threatened to waste us if we didn’t give them
money. ‘Where is the money?’ they screamed at us. In a hurry to leave our car,
they forced my friend to surrender her wedding rings.
“This fair-complexioned guy
(Adebayo) took the first ring and swallowed it in our presence. His colleague
took the other one.”
When interrogated, Adebayo
confessed, “I swallowed it but I have vomited it and handed it over to Young
Boy, who is the third guy, when the police were chasing us. I told him to hand
over the rings to the ladies so that the police could release us but he
absconded with the two rings and the earring.”
Tijani, who was said to be
on the watch list of the police for snatching a mobile phone from a commuter in
traffic earlier in the day, stated, “I have released the phone to the LASTMA
officials standing in Oshodi Oke. They told me that RRS officers were looking
for me to arrest me.”
The two other suspected
traffic robbers, Oluwa and Adamu, were arrested around midnight on Friday when
they were allegedly robbing a stranded motorist around the CMS.
Commenting on the
development, the Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu, stated that the command
would not relent in its efforts to make Lagos safe for law-abiding citizens.
He directed that the
suspects be transferred to the Makinde Police Division, Oshodi, and the State
Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, for further
investigation.
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