Okada ban pushes me into robbery – Gang leader
...we'll make Lagos unsafe for criminals- Taskforce
CITIZENS COMPASS– OPERATIVES of The Lagos State Taskforce , have arrested a suspected notorious armed robbers in the state.
The suspect, Yusuf Lammeed, was said to have specialised in robbing innocent members of the public in the early hours of the day across various parts of the State,
Yusuf was said to have two accomplices who are currently on the run.
He was arrested by the Taskforce operatives while trying to rob a female commuter at Ikeja Along at about 5;30am on Friday, January, 13, 2022.
The lady, shout for help by the lady was said to have alerted the officers on patrol along that axis and this led to a hot chase where one of the suspects fell off the bike and was apprehended.
While confessing to the crime at the Taskforce Headquarters in Bolade Oshodi, the suspect revealed that he and his gang members, “Tribunal” and Abbey of Mushin, have been into the business for over six months.
He disclosed that the ban on the operations of Okada in the State had made the business a lot more difficult but they still carried out operations at intervals to steal phones and sell to their dealers in Mushin popularly known as Segun Scatter, Steven Memory, Kalimantan and Ejo.
Speaking on the arrest, The Chairman of the Agency CSP Shola Jejeloye said that the Agency would do all within its power to ensure that crime will continually be made to be unlucrative for anyone still involved in it.
“Crime is not career. We have made several efforts in the past and will intensify the efforts to ensure criminal elements in the State either flee from here or turn over a new leaf. We will be all out in 2023 to achieve our mandate of zero tolerance to criminality in the State.
Jejeloye urged miscreants, traffic offenders, environmental offenders, car snatchers, burglars, pickpockets, one-chance operators, etc to have rethink this year or they will have themselves to blame at the end of the day. He appealed to residents to report any criminal activities around them to the nearest police Station or to the Agency.
Jejeloye assured Lagosians that a crack team had been assigned to fish out the other gang members who fled the scene of arrest and also apprehend the buyers of their loot. The suspect arrested will be charged to court accordingly.
