The
Lagos state command through the it's operatives from Victoria Island
division have arrested a 23 - years old suspect for offence of robbery.
The
suspect George Onuh who was accompanied by his gang member still at
large had waylaid and dispossessed their victim one Bola who was
carrying a large sum of money just withdrawn from the bank.
The alarm
raised by the victim attracted the police operatives on patrol around
the vicinity, who trailed the suspects to law school area where one of
the suspects was apprehended and the cash recovered from him while the
other fled with the motorcycle used for the operation.
The
victim while narrating her ordeal to the police, said she had gone to
GTBank on Adetokunbo Ademola street to withdraw some cash, and in the
banking hall she sighted the suspect and thought he was a customer but
was surprised when the same supposed customer waylaid her and pointed a
gun at her to dispossess her of her money.
The recovered money was subsequently handed over to the victim.
The exhibit recovered from the suspect is one locally made pistol with six rounds of live ammunition.
The
command's spokesperson Sp Dolapo Badmos said the commissioner of police
CP Fatai Owoseni has directed that the suspect and exhibits be
transferred to SARS Ikeja while effort is on to apprehend the fleeing
suspect.
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