…as command arrests 127 suspects in three months, commences Special Squad’s training
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Thursday, reassured residents that incidence of robbery in traffic will soon fizzle out and become history in the state.
He said this as the Lagos State Police Command began the deployment of human and material resources to tackle the menace.
Odumosu, while giving the assurance in his Ikeja office, confirmed the arrest of no fewer than 127 suspected traffic robbers at various locations within Lagos from March, 2021 till date.
The police commissioner, in a statement by the State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, noted that the command had been fighting robbery in traffic relentlessly, even before the recent donation of crime fighting equipment and communication gadgets to the command by the Lagos State Government.
The state police boss assured that the fight against the menace will be intensified and made more effective with the new equipment from the Lagos State Government.
CP Hakeem Odumosu stated that robbery in traffic has drastically reduced based on the available empirical figure of the isolated cases of robbery in traffic, which he said was not unconnected with the command’s renewed anti-crime strategies being emplaced.
Meanwhile, CP Odumosu has ordered that the combat training, musketry and range practice for police personnel in the command should be continuous as the command has also commenced the training of the police operatives attached to the newly formed Anti-Traffic Robbery Squad to tackle the menace of robbery in traffic in Lagos State.
Odumosu strongly attributed successes recorded in the fight against crimes and criminality in the state to training and re-training of police officers and men and constructive collaboration with the public and other security agencies in the state.
In the same vein, operatives of the Rapid Response Squad again nabbed two (2) notorious suspected robbers along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, on 15th June, 2021.
The two suspects are Tunde Ramoni, 21 and Adepoju Samuel, 34.
Ramoni, who hails from Ibadan, Oyo State, was arrested at Ojota, while Samuel, who hails from Ogbomosho, Oyo State, was caught in the act while robbing a motorist with unregistered motorcycle (Okada) around Tipper area, Ketu, Lagos State.
During the course of investigation, it was revealed that Ramoni was once arrested with a gang of ‘pick pocketers’ in 2019 and was convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment.
Odumosu has directed that the two suspects be transferred to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation.
Similarly, police operatives attached to Apapa Division of the Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, arrested one Ibrahim Abiodun, 26, at Agbomalu Apapa, Lagos State, with two locally-made pistols.
Other items recovered from him include two live cartridges, assorted charms and weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.
The Lagos police commissioner has ordered that the suspects be transferred to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation and possible prosecution.
While reiterating the command’s zero tolerance for crimes and social vices in Lagos State, CP Odumosu ordered the Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and tactical Commanders to redouble their efforts in securing public space across the length and breadth of Lagos State.