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The Rapid Response Squad (RRS) is an arm of the Lagos State Police
Command. It was set up to speedily respond to emergencies within the
state. It carries out regular patrols of the state and have various
'pinning-down' points across the city. The RRS responds to distress
calls made to 767 and 112.
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
RRS Busts Suspected Thieves Of Ambode’s Light-Up Cable
The
operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command,
on Monday, busted a 6-man syndicate which allegedly specialized in
vandalising and stealing of Light-Up cable wire, street lamps and
streetlight poles installed by the Ambode-led administration to
illuminate the state.
The suspects, Tunde Alaba, 29, Saheed
Ismail, 27, Deji Afolorunso, 26, Sunday Obasanmi, 27, Jelili Abodunrin,
32, and Taofeek Oyedele, 28, were all apprehended at about 2:30 am,
under the bridge at CMS after destroying the streetlights powering CMS
under the bridge and its environs.
RRS operatives who were
patrolling the area, sighted them in the act of pulling down the street
lamps, cables and poles, Government installed to lighten up the area
before mobilising more officers for their eventual arrest and movement
to RRS Headquarters, Alausa.
The suspects, who they all owned up
to the crime at the RRS Headquarters, during an interrogation, noted
that they have been living under the bridge for about 4 years.
Governor
Ambode has urged all Police officers to always check out Light-Up Lagos
Project because of pending cases of vandalisation and theft of armoured
cable powering the street lights across the state.
One of the
suspects, Jelili Oyedele, who hailed from Awe in Oyo State, said that
the hardship situation in the country forced him into the criminal act.
He
said, “I came to Lagos about Seven years ago. When I arrived, I was a
bus conductor which I did for about 2 years. I joined the other
accomplices under the bridge when I had no other place to live after my
landlord had evicted me out for non-payment of house rent. Before now, I
was working as labourers with the road construction company around
Marina. But after our project ended, I chose to steal the cable to earn a
living.”
Tunde Alaba, who arrived the City of Excellence from
Ede in Osun State, early 2016, revealed that he left Lagos Island where
he was squatting with a friend to avoid untimely death due to incessant
clashes in the area.
“I ran away for my life for fear of death.
Lagos Island is not safe for me any longer because of rampant killings
and clashes between rival groups in the area. I moved to the under
bridge for shelter. Although, I have not been doing anything tangible
since I arrived the state, but I did have my daily meals through the
sales of cables and iron steels,” he added.
Another suspect, Deji
Afolorunsho, said that he was once a market sweeper in Idumota. “I
swept the whole market every night and they paid me N2, 500 daily. But I
lack contentment which led me to this crime”, he noted.
The
lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police,
SP Dolapo Badmus, said that the Police will not condone any criminal
activity in the state. The suspects have been transferred the Lagos
State Environmental Task Force for prosecution.
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