Police arrest two traffic robbers in Lagos

Operatives of the Lagos Mercurial Response Squad (RRS), a unit of the Lagos Police Clarify, beget arrested two notorious traffic robbers running in the Ketu and Mile 12 areas of Kosofe, Lagos Disclose.

The suspects, Yemi Aparaojo, 33, popularly identified as Asa, and Samuel Adekunle (regularly identified as Omo-jo-Ibo), 37, were apprehended at about 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday.

Aparaojo, an ex-convict, had been launched from Kirikiri Most Correctional Centre in May perhaps perhaps also 2025 after serving six and a half of years. Adekunle, who had been linked to a pair of traffic robberies around Ajelogo and Ketu, had been below surveillance by the RRS operatives.

Final week, the suspects and two accomplices allegedly robbed a passerby of N25,000 around noon. The sufferer, who had tried to back the gang with cash after they pestered him, was subsequently assaulted.

On Tuesday, the sufferer identified Adekunle and alerted RRS operatives, who without warning apprehended the suspects. Two other participants of the gang escaped by plan of Ketu market.

The Commander of the Mercurial Response Squad, CSP Sola Jejeloye, acting on the directives of the Lagos Disclose Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, has reinforced RRS operations in Ketu and Mile 12 to fight rising crime.

Jejeloye has additionally ordered the rapid arraignment of the suspects while operatives continue efforts to apprehend the final gang participants.