Sunday bloody robbery attacks in Lagos State: how policemen help robbers to escape

Fresh facts have emerged about the gang of robbers, who a few week ago, brazenly rocked the foundation of Lagos State security, driving through the streets of Lagos State and shooting recklessly like they were in a Wild West American movie.

They killed three policemen and injured several civilians. Among those they injured was a child.

The latest information says that two police corporals assisted the robbers to escape being caught on that fateful day.

Just as police in Lagos State have arrested two men suspected to be part of the gang, the men had also denied being members of the gang.

The suspects were identified as Rasheed Suleimon and Kazeem Enifolabi. But Suleimon had quickly denied being a member of the gang.

He said he knows the leaders, but had never partaken in any robbery with them. He insisted that he was just an ‘ordinary handsets snatcher.”

Just as anti-robbery detectives were still debriefing Eniofolabi and Suleimon, emerging information said two police corporals had been arrested in connection with the robbery.

A source squealed that the robbers were able to escape because these two policemen, one attached to Elere Police Station and the other Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, monitored police Walkie-Talkie and divulged all the moves and strategies put in place by the police command to catch the bandits.

The source said: “Nobody would have known that these two corporals were involved, if not for providence. The robbers that attacked that fateful Sunday killed three of our men. They went away with their rifles. The gang later went to Oshogbo to rob and one of them was arrested. One of the rifles of the policemen killed at Oba-Akran, Ikeja, was recovered from him. He was the person who fingered these two policemen. One of the policemen is attached to Elere Police Station, the other to SARS.

“They aided the robbers to escape, by monitoring what the Compol was saying on the Walkie-Talkie. They would listen and use their handsets to relay messages to the robbers, so that they would take another route.”