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Police arrest 127 ‘traffic robbers’, train special squad

A total of 127 suspected traffic robbers have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos Police Command since March, the police said Thursday.

The suspects, according to a statement by spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi, were said to have been arrested at different parts of the state.


He said the Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu assured residents the menace would soon be history with the deployment of additional resources to combat it headlong.

With the deployment of more crime fighting equipment to the command by the Lagos State Government, Adejobi said efforts have been intensified to fizzle out the crime completely.

“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that the combat training, musketry and range practice for police personnel in the command be continuous as the command also commenced the training of the police operatives attached to the newly formed Anti Traffic Robbery Squad to tackle the menace of robbery in traffic in Lagos State.

“CP Hakeem Odumosu strongly attributed successes recorded in the fight against crimes and criminality in the state to training and re-training of police operatives and constructive collaboration with the public and other security agencies in the state,” he said.

Among those arrested were Tunde Ramoni, 21, and Samuel Adepoju, 34, alleged to be notorious traffic robbers who operated along Ikorodu Road.

They were arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on June 15, around Tipper area, while allegedly robbing motorists with an unregistered motorcycle.

Police investigation revealed that Ramoni was in 2019, arrested with a gang of suspects pickpockets and was prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to six month jail time.

Also, one Ibrahim Abidun, 26, was arrested on Wednesday at Agbomalu by policemen attached go Apapa Division with two locally-made pistols, two cartridges, assorted charms and weeds suspected to be marijuana.

Adejobi said the CP has directed that the suspects be transferred to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation and possible prosecution.

“While reiterating the command’s zero tolerance for crimes and social vices in the state, CP Hakeem Odumosu, ordered the Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and Tactical Commanders to redouble their efforts in securing public space,” he said.

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POLICE NAB FAKE MEDICAL DOCTOR IN BAYELSA

The Bayelsa State Police command has paraded a suspect who has been claiming to be a medical doctor in Bayelsa and Delta states.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Asinim Butswat, revealed this on Tuesday in a Press Briefing at the Police Headquarters in Yenagoa.

He said the fake medical doctor had been going round seeking for jobs claiming to be Dr. Charles Umeh a serving medical doctor in Taraba state, meanwhile his real name is Akpoviri Vincent Jimmy.

Mr. Butswat said the suspect is Urhobo from Ethiope West local government area of Delta State, and was first discovered in Ughelli when he did not know the correct terminologies a qualified medical doctor should know and use.

He said the suspect claimed he was working in a hospital in Bayelsa which prompted the hospital in Ughelli to probe him, adding that he will be charged to court upon conclusion of investigations.

Also speaking, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Dr. Sawyer Wisdom stated that such activities are what the state government does not like to hear, where people come in to harm residents of the state.

He said the Ministry of Health has the capacity to detect any quack, noting that the Anti Quackery Bill is already in the state House of Assembly.

Dr. Sawyer added that this was just the beginning as they would continue to clamp down on quacks and impostors, advising such people to either quit or get the proper training.

The State Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Ngowari Torunana said he got the information on Monday from Tobis Clinic that they had restrained a fake medical doctor.

He said he was informed by one Prof. Ligha of the development, who said the suspect had come to seek employment in Tobis Clinic as a resident doctor.

According to him, after submitting his credentials in the Clinic, he returned to Delta State and raised suspicion in the hospital when he requested that an Xray of the waist be carried out on a patient.

Dr. Torunana said he told the hospital in Ughelli that he was working as a medical doctor in Tobis Clinic for four months and handles most of their surgeries.

When the suspect returned to Tobis Clinic to follow up on his job application, he was held down by staff of the Clinic who invited the police from Akenfa 2 division and they arrested him.

Dr. Torunana stated that the NMA will not condone such activities, saying such people will be fished out, advising them to quietly disengage and leave the state.

The 49 year old suspect, Mr. Akpoviri Vincent Jimmy revealed to newsmen that he is a graduate of Psychology from Delta State University.

He said he has some knowledge of medicine that was why he carried out such activities, saying he used the credentials of his friend, Dr. Charles Umeh without his knowledge.

According to him, he got his knowledge of medicine while working as a P.A to the late Dr. Ajoke in Sapele, adding that he had not worked as a medical doctor before and only started parading himself as one recently.

A suspected robber, Sunday Oluwasola, was on Sunday evening beaten to stupor by some irate students of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSU) after a failed operation.

The Nation gathered that Oluwasola with his robbery gang armed with locally made barrel guns and cutlasses ransacked one of the students’ hostels opposite the university entrance gate.

A source, who spoke in confidence, said the students mobilised and confronted the robbers when they wanted to cart away valuables belonging to them.

The source added other members of the robbery-gang escaped unhurt with the students’ valuables such as laptops, phones and other items while Oluwasola was captured by the irate students and beaten to stupor.

Ekiti Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tunde Mobayo, said his men, upon receiving a distress call from a passerby, rushed to the scene, rescued Oluwasola and took him to the hospital for medical treatment.

Mobayo, who disclosed this in statement by the Police Spokesman, ASP Sunday Abutu, said the suspect later developed complications on account of the beating and eventually died.

“The Command’s Rapid Response Squad upon the received of a distress call that an armed robbery incident was going on in one of the Students’ Hostels Opposite Ekiti State University, Iworoko-Ekiti.

“The Operatives of the RRS were swiftly deployed to the scene of incident. But on getting to the scene, it was discovered that one of the armed robbers, Sunday Oluwasola, had already been captured by the irate Students and beaten to stupor while the other suspects escaped with the Students’ valuables such as Laptops, Phones and Money.

“The captured suspect was eventually rescued by the Operatives and taken to the Hospital for medical treatment. He later developed complications possibly on account of the beating and died at about 0200hrs of June 14th, 2021”, he said.

He further said that the suspect’s corpse had been deposited in the morgue for post morterm while effort is ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspects.

UGHELLI – There was palpable tension in Ughelli, Delta State, after a manager of petrol station, Mr. Dennis Ikroje, died after being discovered in an under­ground tank by a co-staff.

Though the circumstanc­es surrounding his death could not be ascertained at press time, sources said the man who was said to be in his early thirties, reportedly went to work very early on that faithful morning at the petrol station situated along Ughelli/ Patani Road and allegedly went to the under­ground tank with 20 gallon and a hose for yet unknown reason.

The source who pleaded anonymity, alleged that when other workers resumed, they discovered the manager was in the manhole leading to the underground tank struggling for breath.

It was gathered that the workers immediately raised alarm which attracted the guards and other people around, the source said.

The source added the man­ager was immediately rushed to a clinic but was referred to the Central Hospital, Ughelli, where he was confirmed dead by a doctor.

Efforts made to reach the management of the petrol station and family of the deceased manager for com­ments on the matter, proved abortive as at press time.

However, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Bright Edafe, who confirmed the incident, said he was yet to get details of the matter.

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Operatives of the Oyo State Security Network codenamed Amotekun have arrested a suspected human parts merchant, Mutiu Abdul-Rasheed.

Abdul-Rasheed, 40, was reportedly caught and paraded with fresh human hands and other body parts, which were paraded as exhibits.

Abdul-Rasheed reportedly said he belonged to a syndicate that sources fresh human parts for some people.

He said they exhume bodies of known people.

Commandant of Amotekun Corps in the state, Col Olayinka Olayanju (retd) told journalists that the suspect was investigated for some months before he was apprehended.

He said some unnamed individuals have been “mounting pressure on him to release the suspect.”

Abdul-Rasheed said, “We only exhume bodies that are known to us because we must know the dead person when he or she was alive.

“We must also know his or her name as well as the mother’s name.

“Knowing the mother’s name of the dead person that we want to sell the body parts attracts extra cost from those that buy the human parts from us.”

Items recovered from the suspect included guns, charms, decaying body parts, motorcycles and a car. Col Olayanju assured residents that the suspect would be handed over to the police for further investigation.