Rapid Response Squad Arrests 3 Ex - Convicts.
The
operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos Police Command, in
the wee hours of Sunday arrested three ex – convicts for traffic
robbery in Oshodi in the state.
The
robbery suspects, Adekunle Mustapha, 21, Popoola Olumide, 20 and Femi
Amusa, 20, were arrested following the tip off from their victim,
Olasunkanmi Oyelakin, who alerted the Police that his blackberry phone
was stolen by the suspects during early morning traffic around Bolade,
Oshodi.
The
victim recounted his ordeals to the Police, “I was on my way to Ajah at
about 6:30 a.m, I saw Adekunle Mustapha pass by the bus I boarded.
Unknown to me, he was monitoring me. A few minutes later, I noticed a
missed call on my phone, and as I brought out the phone, Mustapha took
the phone from me through the bus window and ran away. Because there was
traffic, I made no attempt to struggle with him, but got down from the
nearest bus-stop and I began to monitor him. I noticed that he had
regrouped with his friends and one of them was telling him to hand over
the phone he stole from me”.
“I knew
I couldn’t handle the three of them all alone, so I informed the RRS
operatives who followed me down to the place where he was arrested”,
Oyelakin explained
The
visibly distraught Mustapha said that he was driven by frustration to
steal the handset from him. “I am a bus conductor in Oshodi. I am from
Ibadan and a secondary school dropout. I sleep in Ojuwoye, Mushin’, he
said, trembling. I am an ex – convict. I don’t want to go to prison
again. Government should please have mercy on me. I was frustrated into
traffic robbery. I won’t do it again”, he pleaded.
Mustapha’s
accomplices, Popoola Olawale and Femi Amusa said that although they saw
Mustapha in Oshodi regularly, they are also bus conductors and not
in-traffic robbers. They added that they were in Lagos to make money to
buy their working tools having completed their apprenticeship.
*See their faces..OMG....scared and crying lot!.....
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