POLICE FORCE ROBBERS TO ABANDON, BUS, GUN, FLEE INTO BUSH
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Imohimi Edgal disclosed
this today at the Command's headquarter while parading some suspected criminals the police arrested.
The
four robbers who boarded the bus heading to LASU - Iba route from Iyana
Ipaja hijacked the bus from the driver immediately one of the
passengers alighted at Diamond Estate, Isheri, Lagos.
According
to the driver of the bus, Sherrif Dada, “at around 11:00 p.m on
Thursday, after returning from a chartered trip to Sango, my conductor
and I went straight to our usual route at Egbeda to make some more money
before the closing for the day. We saw lots of passengers at Egbeda Bus
Stop who were heading to Igando.
We picked the
passengers and we dropped the first passenger at Diamond Estate Bus
Stop. Just after leaving the Bus Stop, one of the passengers, four guys
in their 20s brought out a gun and told me to stop”.
“Just
after pinning the gun to my head, the other robbers began to ransack
the passengers particularly, a lady suspected to be carrying a handbag
and her Infinix Note 4 android phone. The robbers began to scuffle with
the lady to dispossess her of her belonging but the lady refused to
surrender her bag to the gun wielding bandits.
It
wasn't quite long my conductor escaped that they threw me down on
motion after sighting an RRS patrol vehicle chasing them. They felt I
was not fast enough”, he stated.
According to
the conductor, Hakeem Hassan, “I was also held down at gun point after
attempting to jump down from the moving bus to stop me from raising
alarm.
Unfortunately for them for them I
managed to escape from the bus after the driver slowed down. I ran for
my dear life. They threatened to shoot me but I defied all their threat
to stop me from calling attention of those around the area”.
He
stated further, “immediately I manage to jump from the bus, I ran
backward screaming for help and also hearing the robber telling me to
stop that he was going to shoot me but I continued running until I ran
into a filling station.
It wasn’t quite long I
had been screaming for help when I saw an RRS patrol vehicle speeding
towards me. I guessed other road users who saw me had told them”.
“The
chase by the police vehicle unsettled the four robbers. They instantly
stopped collecting our valuables and were thinking of how to escape. As
soon as we left Igando General Hospital, they drove the danfo into a
bush and escaped leaving behind their only gun and mobile phone they
took from one of the passengers", one of the commuters stated.
Recovered from the bus were a locally made gun and an Android mobile phone, which they collected from one of the passengers.
Both
the danfo bus and the mobile phone were handed over to their owners at the RRS Headquaters in Alausa.
Commenting
on the development, the Police PRO, SP Chike Oti said “Lagos is not a
safe zone for any criminal to operate, if they risk it, we will get
them”.
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