Lagos Police arrest 27 suspects, sack criminals from hideouts
Tobi Adetunji.
The Lagos Police Command has arrested not less than twenty-seven suspected criminals across various blackspots in the metropolis.
The Police are sanitising Lagos State to make it safe for everybody.
The incisive operations which were carried out by the officers and men of Rapid Respond Squad (RRS) led by CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi was effected between the late hours of Thursday and early hours of Friday2021, respectively.
In a statement by the Spokesperson Lagos State Police Command, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi which was made available to Nigerian NewsDirect, the Commissioner of Police Lagos State CP Hakeem Odumosu has been very emphatic about sanitizing Lagos and continually taking the fight to the dens of criminals and identified different black spots across Lagos metropolis.
The Police Chief said, “The arrest was carried out by the operatives of the RRS being a follow up to the directive of the Commissioner of Police to the Commander, Rapid Response Squad (RRS), CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, to place certain spots under surveillance and dislodge the criminals hibernating in the spots especially at Ikeja, Agege and Alimosho areas of Lagos State.”
“The raid was also extended to Ile Zik, Dopemu Under Bridge, Shasha, Orisumbare, Iyana – Ipaja Underbridge, Ile – Epo, Abule Egba, Isokoko, Alfa Nla, Capitol Road, Akilo, Marketing, Alausa Central Business District among others,” he noted.
He gave the details of the arrested suspects as follows: Michael Ogungbade (19), m, Dola Abdullahi (20), Kehinde Ayoola (25), m Kolawole, m, (26), Kehinde Ayoola (25), and 23 others.
“CP Hakeem Odumosu reaffirmed that the command will continue to intensify efforts to reduce incidences of traffic robbery, cultism and other social vices within the state, to their barest minimum.”
He commended the operatives for the successful operation, and advised parents and guardians to monitor their children and wards on the company they keep as cultism and traffic robbery remain unpardonable crimes which will not be overlooked or spared as they attract stringent punishments in the law.
