A 22-year-old robbery suspect Michael David has confessed that his three- man gang specialized only in robbing expensive phones from people.
According to officer in charge of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Ahmed Muhammed Sanusi the suspects were three but two escaped.
Sanusi said: “On the 13th August 2017, at about 2.20am one Desmond Jacob and one Anele Kate of No. 14 Olasunloye Street, Ijegun Satellite Lagos were on their way home at Close 26, Satellite town, and suddenly they were attacked by three armed men with one locally- made double barrel pistol who ordered them to surrender their phones or get shot. They robbed them of one Infinix hot 4 phone valued thirty-nine thousand naira (N39, 000.000) at gun point.
They tried to escape on their standby motorcycle but the complainant summoned courage and dragged down one of them called Michael David with his gun from the motorcycle and with the help of passersby he was arrested and his pistol was recovered from him. He told police that his two gang members who escaped had on them over six expensive phones which they robbed from people that fateful day.
The suspect appealed to police passionately to grant him bail on one condition which is to help police to arrest two of his gang members who escaped.
However, the Commissioner of police CP Edgal Imohimi had appealed to members of the public to assist the police with useful information and partner with police in crime fighting especially when the town is on community policing for effective policing.
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