The hands of the law caught up with a group of suspected robbers after operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a unit of Lagos State police command arrested the syndicate believed to have been terrorising College Road, Fagba, and Abbattoir areas of the state. at College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye, after the gang had robbed more than five passers-by of their valuables brandishing knives and other lethal weapons. The suspects: Lekan Akinyemi, 23; Chimeze Ofulie, 18; Babangida Abdullahi, 22; Abubakar Umaru, 30; Samuel Oyinloye, 24; Timileyin Oladipupo, 27; and Habeeb Olayinka. All the suspects reside in Abattoir, Agege.The suspects had on Thursday, robbed one Agafe Augustine after he alighted from a taxi at College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye. Among the items collected from him by the gang were an Android phone, N14,000 and a handbag.

Source: The Guardian February 18, 2019 03:45 UTC