Lagos CP goes tough docked suspected Cultists, traffic robbers
By Tobi Adetunji
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested eleven suspected cultists and traffic robbers.
The suspected Cultists who were arrested on Saturday by the police operatives attached to the Strike team of the Command while attacking and dispossessing innocent people of their belongings at Railway Crossing, Ikeja Along, Ikeja-Lagos.
In a statement by the Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police CP Hakeem Odumosu reiterated the readiness of the command to tackle crimes and criminality in the State particularly the traffic robbery, rejigged the command’s strategies to suppress, raid and arrest hoodlums at the identified areas/hideouts across the state.
Odumosu said, “Regularly, the command has been arresting traffic robbers who terrorise and dispossess innocent people of their belongings in the state.
“While many of them are being kept at bay due to the consistency and commitment of the command in tackling the menace and other forms of criminality in the state.”
Giving more insight into how the suspects were apprehended, Odumosu noted that the operatives swiftly responded to a distress call from one of the victims raced to the area, and arrested some of the suspects in action while others were arrested at their hideouts around Ikeja Along.
“They have confessed to the crime.The suspects also revealed that they attack their targets with iron rods, guns, cutlasses and charms during operation,” he said.
“In the course of police investigation, the suspects revealed one of their receivers, one Idris Adamu, m, 42, who was immediately arrested at Alade Market, Lagos State. A gold necklace of one of the victims and many other suspected stolen items like phones, neck laces, watches etc were recovered from him.”
Other victims of their robbery operation on the said date have been identified and assisting the police in their investigation.
The suspects have been interrogated in order to extract more information on their mode of operations, membership and accomplices so as to apprehend other members of the gang and those who conspire with them in committing the dastardly act in the area and across the state.
The suspects are Sadiq Masaki, m, 22, Oladimeji Olatunbosun, m, 24, Adam Hassan, m, 21, Tunde Afolayan,m, 24, Michael Ademola, m, 22, Olamide Johnson, m, 20, Abiodun Opeyemi, m, 22, Oluseyi Agbaje, m, 21, Daniel Ayomide, m, 20 and Adebayo Tobi, m, 21.
Odumosu has ordered that the Strike Team profiles the suspects and go after their gang members and conspirators as the command will not spare anyone who engages in any act of criminality, no matter its magnitude.
He directed that the Commander RRS, the Commander Taskforce and other tactical Commanders should sectorise the state for easy operation and get rid of traffic robbers and other criminals in order to accord perfect and excellent service delivery as well as effective security to all and sundry in Lagos State.
