OPERATIVES of the Lagos State Police Command have again arrested eight suspected traffick robbers in the state, just as they also recovered hard drugs and weapons.
According to a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, the suspects were arrested between Thursday night, February 11 and early hours of Friday, February 12 at Ketu area of the state.
Five of the suspects were arrested on Thursday, at about 10:30 p.m, by a team of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) around Motorways end of Ketu, while the other three suspects were caught in the act by another RRS patrol team around 6:00 a.m on Friday.
The suspects are: Olawuyi Olayinka (27), Mayowa Adeleke (17), Fa’izu Ado (25), Segun Oluwatoyin (27), Haruna Shuaibu (29), Amos Abayomi (24), Monday Obayemi (25) and Okunlola Olawale (21).
One of the suspects, Abayomi, who was arrested with a machete in between traffic in the morning of Friday in Ketu, disclosed that he used to rob in traffic with a syndicate of other hoodlums, especially in the morning and at night.
He further explained that there were instances where motor boys working in Ajelogo Park, Ketu would use their trucks to block the highway at dawn thereby,creating artificial traffic so that they could feast on motorists and commuters held in traffic.
Abayomi, who had dispossessed a young lady of her Tecno Spak 4 phone, shortly before he was arrested, noted that traffic robbery at dawn and night was all he does for a living.
He also disclosed that he had handed over the phones he collected to one of his colleagues, Akube (now at large) before he was arrested.
Abayomi, an Eiye cult member, also confessed that Monday Obayemi, who was equally arrested with the assorted hard drug, robs and sells hard drugs in traffic to the suspects and other criminals on a daily basis.
Items recovered from the suspects were weapons, assorted charms, mobile phones, wraps of substances suspected to be
cocaine and other hard drugs.
