LAGOS: Police nab nine suspected traffic robbers on New Year’s eve

LAGOS State Police Command has said nine traffic robbers were arrested in the state on New Year’s eve.

Revealing the identities of the suspected robbers, the command named 19-year old Oluseyi Afolabi, 18-year-old.

Adeyemo Ayomide, 19-year-old Francis Latifa, 23-year-old Rasheed Ibrahim, 19-year-old Hamzat Abdullahi, 20-year-old Musa Gbadamosi and 32-year-old Seun Lasisi.

According to the police items recovered included two long knives and other ‘dangerous’ weapons.

The suspects were said to be arrested along Y-junction, by Old Tollgate, Ketu, at about 8 pm on New Year eve just as the operation was carried out by Police operatives attached to Ketu Division.

Spokesperson of the Command, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the suspects had attacked one Adejare Adetayo and his wife in the traffic when Police detectives on an undercover operation in the area went after the hoodlums and arrested nine with their operational weapons.

The State Commissioner of Police, CP 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 State CID, Panti, Yaba, for proper investigation.