Following a report on the Guardian Newspaper publication of Sunday, January 27, 2019, on page 4, with the headline ‘Robbers kill three in Lagos’, the Lagos State Police command informed that that the robbers had engaged the police in a shootout during which one of them, Damilare Adegbayi, 31, was shot in the leg and arrested while one Samuel Oyejide who fled the scene was arrested by the neighbourhood vigilance group and handed over to the police.
A statement by the command’s spokesman, Mr. Chike Oti disclosed that a cut-to-size locally made pistol with three live cartridges was also recovered from Damilare Adegbayi.
He noted that as a result of the unfortunate incident, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi directed the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to take over investigation of the case from Dopemu Police Station and ensure that fleeing members of the armed robbery gang that perpetrated the act were arrested.
In his words, “The third suspect, Haruna Ibrahim, 23, was arrested later in the evening of same day by SARS operatives following confessions of the two suspects earlier arrested.
“The CP has deployed two teams of SARS operatives to beef up security in the area. They are to patrol Ipaja and environs until further notice”.
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