Police operatives attached to the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command over the weekend arrested 13 suspected traffic robbers, including a female, in Oshodi and Ketu (Alausa) areas of the state.
The arrests, according to a statement on Sunday posted to Twitter by the chief press secretary to Lagos State governor Gboyega Akosile, come as the police intensify efforts in mopping up criminals suspected to be attacking motorists and commuters in traffic.
The statement said the arrests came on the heels of a four-day surveillance on “black spots” in Oshodi and Alausa (Ketu) to weed out criminals in the areas where it was reliably gathered that the suspects, most of whom pretend to be load carriers in Oshodi, but abscond with travellers’ loads at dawn and at night.
It was also gathered that they often attack and rob unsuspecting Lagosians.
