Police in Lagos parade 32 suspected traffic robbers, cultists, others
Tamarauemi Ebimini
The police in Lagos on Thursday parades 32 suspects alleged to have been engaged in various criminal activities, including cultism, traffic robbery and others across the state.
The state commissioner of police, Idowu Owohunwa, told journalists that one hammer, five axes, five locally made pistols, two locally made double-barrel, twenty-two live cartridges, two expended cartridges, two 9ml live cartridges and one Hilux vehicle was recovered from the suspects.
The commissioner, represented by the Command’s spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin, said that in the Ikorodu area of the state, eight well-known notorious cultists were arrested and would be arraigned immediately after the parade.
He stated their names as Akinwale Abiodun (31), Shola Salawokara (36), Adewunmi Adeniyi (33), Ganiu Gbadamosi (37), Nojim Kasamotu (32), Abraham Abuba (39), Agoro Ariyo (18) and Awotehinde Sikiru (39).
The commissioner said they also recorded a case of theft around Ilupeju, in which two suspects were apprehended for being in the custody of a Toyota Hilux.
The commissioner also said that he had charged the police tactical units to take battles to the doorsteps of cultists, which led to the arrest of three notorious cultists in the Isolo area of the state.
He said that out of the three arrested, one Oluwatosin Adebimpe, 31, popularly known as Seventy, who has been causing unrest, was arrested in the Itire area of Isolo. Others are 39-year-old Razak Agbabiaka and 32-year-old Saheed Olaolokun.
Meanwhile, in Ijora-Badia, Underbridge and its environs, the police also arrested 11 traffic robbers caught in the act of engaging in traffic robbery in and around the area while adding that they will be arraigned immediately after the parade.
They are Kasim Ibrahim(20), Sharafadeen Isiaka (25), Kingsley Okpolo (42), Toheeb Dauda (19), Al-Amin Ahmed (19), Waheed Fisaur (19), Ariyo Taofeek (20), Quadri Azeez (22), Ibrahim Ajomagberin (27), Ibrahim Ali (29) and Babagana Ulama (24).
Five suspects were arrested by the police tactical unit in the Magbon Area of Badagry and one, Ademefun Jamiu (27), in Abattoir for cultism.
