The Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected armed robber in Olorunshogo Area of Mushin after a failed robbery attack on a bank.
WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the robbery attack was foiled by men of Olosan Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer, SP Ayodele Arogbo and the leader of the gang identified as Mahmoud Mohammed was arrested while other gang members escaped.
According to reports, the robbers who retreated with bullet wounds, came on two motorcycles to rob the bank.
Four locally-made short guns and 45 pieces of live ammunition were recovered from Mohammed who confessed to being a member of a gang that specialised in robbing banks and their customers in Lagos and other states.
“Once a customer withdraws money from the bank, we will monitor and confirm if it is a huge withdrawal. We will then trail such a person to their house and rob him or her. We have successfully done that on several occasions. Recently, we robbed a woman in Ijegun through the same method, but we didn’t hurt her,” the arrested suspect said.
The Police Public Relation Officer in the state, Bala Elkana confirmed the arrest and disclosed that the Commissioner of Police Zubairu Muazu, has ordered that the case be transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for further investigation as effort to arrest other members of the gang has been intensified.
