Lagos Police Reels Out One Month Achievements, Crack Cultism Syndicate, Others
••• Parade: 75-Year-Old Grandma, Cultists, Others
By People’s Voice Nigeria | News
The Lagos State Police Command has said that it arrested a total of 40 suspected felons who committed various degrees of criminality in the last month, ranging from armed robbery, stealing, kidnapping, cult attacks, murder, and many more.
The command made the revelation while parading the felons before People’s Voice Nigeria and other invited press members at the Police Officers Mess, GRA, Ikeja, on Thursday.
In his speech, the Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, who was represented by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said that “from all of these cases that we successfully cracked, we recovered a total of eight (8) arms, sixteen (16) live rounds of ammunition, six (6) vehicles, one (1) motorcycle, two (2) axes, nine (9) generators, seven (7) TVs, two (2) grinding machines, two (2) knives, one (1) home theater, twenty-seven (27) phones, hard drugs, and decomposing human hands.”
Among the cases under review was the arrest of Adesiji Oluwatobi “m,” aged 44, and Oluwafemi Osoja “m,” aged 26, who dispossessed an Uber driver of his vehicle at gunpoint.
Others are arrested by “credible intelligence” of some group of boys of rival cult groups, including Ridwan Akibu ‘m’ aged 28, Farouk Kareem ‘m’ aged 22, and Damilare Ige ‘m’ aged 30. The command confirmed that the suspects confessed to being active members of the Aiye Confraternity and also involved in the killing of rival cult group members and innocent residents during cult-related clashes and the arrest of a wanted notorious and deadly kidnapper, Shokki Ebis, aka Nero “m,” aged 33 years, with one locally made Dane gun and one live cartridge. He also confessed to being a member of a kidnapping syndicate terrorizing Ikorodu down to the Redeem Christian Church of God back gate in the Ogijo area of Ogun State, according to the PPRO.
Other criminals paraded were a 75-year-old grandma, who was accused of keeping stolen goods for the criminals; three males, who killed an elderly couple and made away with their money and other valuables; and two men, Monday Alfred “m,” aged 32, and Laitan Apanpa aka Emir “m,” aged 34, for unlawful possession of two decomposing human hands and other dangerous weapons.
Also paraded were a gang of armed robbers: Saobanor Adesina, “m,” aged 18, Boluwatife Oluwapelumi, “m,” aged 23, and Idowu Oluwapelumi, “m,” aged 20, for attacking residents of Jokogbola Estate, Agbede Ikorodu, Lagos State, and carting away motorcycles, electronics, jewelry, laptops, nine (9) cell phones, and cases.
Confirming that the command will charge all suspects to court immediately, CP Idowu Owohunwa assured Lagos residents that the command “would continue to do everything operationally possible to ensure that crime and criminality are brought to the barest minimum in the state.”
