Six suspected armed robbers, who
allegedly attacked a female inspector
and collected her bag containing
N50,000 and other valuables, have been
arrested by the Lagos state police
command.
Punch Metro gathered that the robbers,
at the Idi Oro bus stop in the Mushin
area of Lagos, had swooped on the
inspector as she alighted from a
commercial bus, at about 10.30pm last
Wednesday.
The matter was reported at the Anti-
Robbery section of the SDCI and 23
suspects were picked up from the bus
stop the following day.The inspector was
said to have identified six of the suspects
as the attackers.
The suspects are Monday Dahoof, 19;
Opeyemi Abiodun, 28; Moshood Ibrahim,
27; Ademola Adeyanka, 28; Tope
Akinyemi, 34; and Ibrahim Kamilu, 22.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, the
suspects, however, denied attacking the
inspector.
One of them, Akinyemi, said he was a
fashion designer in the Oloosa area and
he was returning from his shop when the
police picked him up.
He said,
“I am a family man. I have not met
the woman before in my life. I am
a fashion designer. I was returning
from my shop when the police
waylaid and arrested me.”
A police source said that the bag, as well
as two Automated Teller Machine cards
in it had yet to be recovered.
“We initially arrested 23 of them
at the scene of the crime. But the
inspector was able to identify six of
them. The police woman had just
alighted from a commercial bus
when the robbers swooped on her.
They collected her bag and
clothes.“She thereafter reported to
the SARS and the suspects were
arrested.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP
Joe Offor, could not be reached for
comment.
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