Posted on: 11:12 Thu, 10 Dec 2015



Six suspected armed robbers, who
allegedly attacked a female inspector
and collected her bag containing
N50,000 and other valuables, have
been arrested by the Lagos state
police command.

Punch Metro gathered that the
robbers, at the Idi Oro bus stop in
the Mushin area of Lagos, had
swooped on the inspector as she
alighted from a commercial bus, at
about 10.30pm last Wednesday.

The matter was reported at the Anti-
Robbery section of the SDCI and 23
suspects were picked up from the bus
stop the following day.

The inspector was said to have
identified six of the suspects as the
attackers.

The suspects are Monday Dahoof, 19;
Opeyemi Abiodun, 28; Moshood
Ibrahim, 27; Ademola Adeyanka, 28;
Tope Akinyemi, 34; and Ibrahim
Kamilu, 22.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, the
suspects, however, denied attacking
the inspector.

One of them, Akinyemi, said he was
a fashion designer in the Oloosa area
and he was returning from his shop
when the police picked him up.

He said, “I am a family man. I have
not met the woman before in my
life. I am a fashion designer. I was
returning from my shop when the
police waylaid and arrested me.”

A police source said that the bag, as
well as two Automated Teller
Machine cards in it had yet to be
recovered.

“We initially arrested 23 of them at
the scene of the crime. But the
inspector was able to identify six of
them.

The police woman had just alighted
from a commercial bus when the
robbers swooped on her.

They collected her bag and
clothes.“She thereafter reported to
the SARS and the suspects were
arrested.”

The Police Public Relations Officer,
DSP Joe Offor, could not be reached
for comment.