We run shifts, say pickpockets

A 48-year-old man, Henry Ate, yesterday told police in Lagos that he and other pickpockets usually operate in shifts – morning and evening – in the Lagos metropolis. 


Ate and seven others were arrested by officials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) as pickpockets. The RRS also arrested seven others as “one-chance” robbers.
All the suspects were arrested at Ajegunle area and Mile 2. The RSS gave the names of the suspects as Ate, Akeem Fatai (42), Jerry Nwokoro (24), Olayinka Tadius (29), Lucky Thompson (36), Stanley Augustine (31) and Ubah Kenneth (25). Others are Habib Narudeen (17), Oyemi Ilesanmi (23), Kenneth Okojie (30), Chinedu Uzubi (24), Ajakaiye Christopher (30), Samson Uwaneze (23), and Wasiu Kazeem 24; while Chinedu Godwin (32), a suspected pickpocket, was apprehended at Mile 2.
The police also recovered two commercial buses with registration number KTU 716XS and GGE 532XL used by the suspects. According to RRS, the arrest was made possible following a tip-off from the members of the public about the incessant attacks of the suspects.

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