Police arrest armed robber at Mile 2, Lagos State.

Members of the Lagos State enhanced security outfit known as Rapid Response Squad (RRS), have arrested an arm robbery suspect, who specialises in stealing handsets from motorists, and picking peoples pocket around mile 2.

The commander Tunji Disu led operatives of the RRS, following a distress call by one Mr. Oji Ogbonnanya, who was robbed the sum of N28,000, in a commercial bus going to Festac area from Oshodi, apprehended the 23-year-old Monday Ubi.

Narrating his story to the police, the victim, Mr. Ogbonnanya, said the suspect who sat beside him at the last seat of the bus, craftily dipped his hand into his pocket, and stole the N28,000.

“I boarded a bus to Mile 2 from Oshodi. On getting to Toyota Bus stop, the suspect came in as another passenger because there were still
vacant seats inside the bus. I did not have any inkling that he had a mission. I shifted a bit for him and he sat close to me. When I noticed that
he had removed the money from my pocket after I touched my thigh, I pretended as if nothing had happened. Then I was looking for where I can see any Police patrol vehicle to come to my rescue.

“When we reached Mile 2, he wanted to alight from the bus and I held his trousers, then I called the attention of RRS patrol team I saw around the area. Unknown to me, he has passed the money to one of his gang. But when the Police had surrounded us, we saw one man who just dropped the money on the road and fled away. Policemen ran after him but he absconded. Immediately, the suspect was arrested and conveyed to the squad’s headquarters, where he confessed that he actually stole my money and passed it to his partner, the guy who dropped it.”

Mr. Ogbonnaya, thanked the members of the police, for coming to his rescue, and also said his complete money(N28,000), was handed over to him by the police.

Source: The Guardian