An ex-convict, Emmanuel Sunday has been arrested by officials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) for traffic robbery around the Ketu area of Lagos State.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed this in a Wednesday statement.
The police spokesman said Sunday, 32, was apprehended around 8:00 p.m. when RRS officials working undercover spotted him while trying to dispossess a motorist of his mobile phone at Ojota Underbridge.
Hundeyin said that during interrogation, Sunday disclosed that he was few months ago arrested by Alapere Police Division for stealing, for which he was sentenced to three month jail term in Kirikiri Correctional Centre.
“Sunday’s arrest came on the heels of strategic deployment of undercover policemen to comb areas with incidences of traffic robbery by the Commander RRS, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi,” the police statement read in part.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi has directed that the team leaves no stone unturned in the arrest of the remaining traffic robbers in the area.