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Police nab 127 traffic robbery suspects

…begin training for Special Squad

Police yesterday said they had, in the last three months, arrested 127 suspected traffic robbers in parts of Lagos State. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, also reassured Lagos residents that robbery in traffic would soon fizzle out and become history in the state. He said the command had deployed its human and material resources to tackle the menace headlong. Odumosu gave the assurance at his Ikeja office.

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement 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. He promised that the fight against the menace would be intensified and be more effective. Adejobi said the police boss had asserted that robbery in traffic had drastically reduced based on the available empirical figure of the isolated cases of robbery in traffic.

The reduction, he said, was not unconnected to the command’s renewed anti-crime strategies being emplaced. Similarly, Odumosu has ordered that the combat training, musketry and range practice for police personnel in the command be a continuous one.

He said this as the command commenced the training of the police operatives attached to the newly formed Anti-Traffic Robbery Squad to tackle the menace of robbery in traffic. The commissioner attributed successes recorded in the fight against crimes and criminality in the state to training and retraining 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 (RRS), again nabbed two notorious suspected robbers on Ikorodu Road on Tuesday.

The suspects are Tunde Ramoni (21) and Adepoju Samuel (34). Ramoni, who hails from Ibadan, was arrested at Ojota, while Samuel, who hails from Ogbomosho, was caught in the act while robbing a motorist with an unregistered motorcycle around Tipper area, Ketu. During investigation, it was discovered that Ramoni was once arrested with a gang of pickpockets in 2019. He was convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment.

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