A collaboration between members of the public and police would make community safe.
This were the words of the Commisisomer of Police in Lagos State, Abiodun Alabi while commenting on the recent arrest of seven suspected traffic robbers operating around Ikeja City Mall and Mile 2 area of Lagos.
Officials of Lagos Rapid Response Squad, RRS, arrested three traffic robbers at Ikeja City Mall, but members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Mile 2 park assisted the police in arresting four notorious traffic robbers in the area.
Four of the suspects, Segun Peters, 22, Kabiru Odeh, 25, Nurudeen Suraj, 22, and Dennis Ikuvbogie, 24, were arrested at Mile 2 while having a field day; other suspects, Anifowoshe Kolawole, 20, Patrick Ameke, 21, and John Britto, 27, were picked around Ikeja City Mall based on complaints on their illicit activities around the area.
The Commander of RRS, CSP. Olayinka Egbeyemi, had on a tip off on the activities of traffic robbers in Mile 2 this afternoon deployed plain cloth police men to the area to monitor and arrest the suspects.
The NURTW members had hounded down the four suspects before the officers got there.
The suspects were thereafter handed over to the police team for investigation and prosecution.
One of the suspects, Nurudeen Suraj was a week ago arrested and detained at Agboju Police Station. He explained that he was released from prison two months ago.
Those arrested in Ikeja were selectively picked up after a petition initiated by the management of Ikeja City Mall on reported incidences of traffic robbery in the area. The suspects, who were placed under close monitoring before their arrest this afternoon, on most occasion pretended to be beggars and nose mask vendors. They used the ploy to rob motorists and pedestrians visiting the complex.
CP. Alabi commended the civilians who provided the intelligence to the police as well as those who assisted the police in arresting the suspects.
