The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad ( RRS) of the Lagos Police Command, in the wee hours of today arrested three persons for traffic robbery in Oshodi area of Lagos , Southwest Nigeria. The robbery suspects , Adekunle Mustapha, 21; Popoola Olumide , 20 and Femi Amusa, 20 , were arrested following the tip off from their victim , Olasunkanmi Oyelakin , who alerted the Police that his blackberry phone was stolen by the suspects during early morning traffic around Bolade , Oshodi. The victim recounted his ordeals to the Police: “ I was on my way to Ajah at about 6: 30 a. m, I saw Adekunle Mustapha passed by the bus I boarded. Unknown to me , he was monitoring me . A few minutes later, I noticed a missed call on my phone , and as I brought out the phone , Mustapha took the phone from me through the bus window and ran away . Because there was traffic , I made no attempt to struggle with him , but got down from the nearest bus-stop and I began to monitor him . I noticed that he had regrouped with his friends and one of them was telling him to hand over the phone he stole from me . “ I knew I couldn’ t handle the three of them all alone, so I informed the RRS operatives who followed me down to the place where he was arrested” , Oyelakin explained The visibly distraught Mustapha said that he was driven by frustration to steal the handset from him . “ I am a bus conductor in Oshodi. I am from Ibadan and a secondary school dropout . I sleep in Ojuwoye , Mushin . I am an ex – convict . I don ’t want to go to prison again. Government should please have mercy on me . I was frustrated into traffic robbery . I won ’ t do it again ” , he pleaded . Mustapha’ s accomplices , Popoola Olawale and Femi Amusa said that although they saw Mustapha in Oshodi regularly, they were also bus conductors and not traffic robbers . They added that they were in Lagos to make money to buy their working tools having completed their apprenticeship . In another development , RRS has recovered a locally made gun with a cartridge in Surulere. The gun was recovered about 2: 00 a. m. by RRS man on a regular patrol of Iganmu Bridge by Brewery , Surulere. The policeman had spotted three men standing in a suspicious manner . The men on sighting the officer took to their heels. However , when a search was conducted on where the men were standing , a locally made short gun was found with an unspent cartridge. Confirming the story , Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Joe Offor said that the three suspects had been charged to court . www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/15/rrs-arrests-three-suspected-traffic-robbers/

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