A suspected armed robber, Fatai Ismail a.k.a. Small (23), who had reportedly been terrorizing residents of Ajah area in Lagos State, has been arrested by the state police command.
Disclosing the suspect’s arrest on Monday, December 7, 2020, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said that he was nabbed with the help of some community members when he went to attack a supermarket at Folarin Bus Stop, Ajah Area on November 29.
Thenewsbearer learnt that Ismail, who confessed to being a cultist, had also been arrested by the police command in 2017 for a similar offence and charged to court.
Exhibits recovered from him included a locally-made pistol and some cartridges, which he claimed to have procured from a man (name withheld), who is at large.
Also, nine suspected arsonists that burnt Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Secretariat on October 20, during EndSARS protests in the state, have been apprehended.
The suspects were identified as Abdulganiyu Habeeb (30), Adetunji Senyi (27), Ahmed Animashaun (28), Alowonle Lawal (28), Taiwo Nuah (19) and four others.
Adejobi added that operatives attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department of the command had also arrested two suspects, Precious Chukwu (22) and Ujunwa Offiah (18), for conspiring with one Ifesinachi Blessed (26), of Coker area of the state, to stage a case of kidnapping.
It was gathered that the female suspects were girlfriends to Blessed, who was a Uber driver but currently at large.
The PPRO stayed that the fleeing suspect kept Offiah at a place and made calls to her family that she had been kidnapped.
“He pretended to be a kidnapper, and demanded for a ransom of N30 million.
“The family eventually negotiated, with the help of his other girlfriend, Chukwu, and agreed to pay him N700,000 for the release of Offiah.
“The police swung into action and later discovered that it was a staged kidnapping, and the suspects were immediately arrested,” the PPRO said.
He said that the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu had ordered that the suspect at large should be searched for and arrested.
Again, two suspected cultists belonging to Aiye Confraternity were arrested on Sunday, December 6, at Igbologun Division.
The suspects’ names were given as Sheriff Haruna (22), of Snake Island, and Dare Gabriel, (26).
Two of them were said to have been engaged in supremacy battle, before they were arrested by the police.
Sheriff was arrested with a locally-made pistol, the spokesman disclosed.
He said that the state Commissioner of Police, who personally interrogated and paraded the suspects at the command headquarters on Monday, ordered for thorough investigation into the cases.
