One of three former convicts arrested by the Rapid Response Squad
(RRS), Lagos State Police Command, yesterday said that frustration led
him into armed robbery.
The 21-year-old suspect, Mustapha Adekunle,
said: “I’m an ex-convict. I don’t want to go to prison again. Government
should please have mercy on me. It was frustration that led me into
traffic robbery. I won’t do it again.”
Adekunle’s partners, Femi Amusa (20) and Popoola Olumide (20), were
all arrested at Oshodi area of the state after robbing a passenger of
his blackberry phone in traffic. The RRS Commandant, an Assistant
Commissioner of Police, Mr Tunde Disu, said: “The suspects were arrested
after the victim alerted the policemen that his phone had been snatched
by some suspects in traffic.”
It was gathered that Adekunle works as a bus conductor at Oshodi, but
usually sleeps at Ojuwoye, Mushin. Olumide and Amusa denied being armed
robbers. They claimed that they were just ‘bus conductors’. The victim,
Olasunkami Oyelakin, explained that he was on his way to Ajah about
6:30am, when he noticed Adekunle. He said:
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