Police nab nine traffic robbery suspects in Lagos

Etim Ekpimah

The operatives of the Lagos State Police Command attached to Ketu Division have arrested nine suspected traffic robbers around 8pm along Y-Junction, by Old Tollgate, Ketu, Lagos State.

It was learnt that the suspects had attacked one Adejare Adetayo and wife in the traffic at the area when police detectives on undercover operation along the area went after the hoodlums and arrested nine of them with their operational weapons.

The suspects are Oluseyi Afolabi, 19; Adeyemo Ayomide, 18; Francis Latifa, 19; Rilwan Raji, 23;  Ayomide, 20; Rasheed Ibrahim, 22; Hamzat Abdullahi, 19; Musa Gbadamosi, 20, and Seun Lasisi 32.

Two long knives and other dangerous weapons were recovered from the suspects.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, while commending the police operatives for the successful operation and arrest of the hoodlums, reassured Lagosians of adequate security and public safety within the length and breadth of the state.

He, however, directed that the suspects be transferred to the State CID, Panti, Yaba, for proper investigation.

Odumosu felicitates with Lagosians, officers and men of the command, stakeholders in the security sector and sister security agencies on the new year celebration.

He also admonishes Lagosians to embrace peace and obey all laws of the land as the police and other security agencies in the state are ever ready to discharge their duties effectively.