The death toll of the Lagos robberies
which occurred in various parts of the state on Saturday and Sunday, has risen
to nine after it was reported at Ajah Police Division that a mother of two,
Badejoko Akinrujomu, was killed by one of the robbers.
According to a friend of the
deceased, the robbers had while attacking Akinrujomu’s home on Sunday night,
tied up all the occupants of the house.
It was learnt that while the 37-year-old was being tied up by the
robbers, she was able to identify him and the robber opened fire on her,
killing her instantly.
She said, “What the neighbours told
me was that the robbers came around 3am on Sunday and brought all the
neighbours out of their houses. Badejoko (Akinrujomu) lives in the flat on the
ground floor and was also brought out.
“The robbers then tied all of them
and collected their car keys. As she was being tied up, she identified one of
the robbers and the guy killed her. They entered the vehicles and drove away
immediately. The deceased, who is a trader, had just moved into that area a few
weeks ago.”
It was learnt that the police were immediately alerted of the
development and rushed down to the scene.
It was gathered that the policemen
were on their way to the robbery scene when they were ambushed and killed by
the robbers.
Meanwhile, the state police command
has begun to beef up security across the state following the killing of six of
its men and three civilians in Ajah and Oyingbo in Lagos.
It was learnt that the Commissioner
of Police, Umar Manko, on Monday summoned all the Divisional Police Officers in
the state for an emergency meeting where security strategies were discussed.
A senior police officer, who spoke to
our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that security had
been beefed up in the state.
“We were all with the CP on Monday
and we held a meeting for four hours. We are not happy about the development
and we are on the trail of the robbers. We will get them,” he said.
The police officer added that
more patrol vans had been stationed in all crime-prone areas of the state.
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All this nonsense will only stop if they train and employ graduate youth as police men. Research shows that 50% of United states citizen are either an undercover cop to FBI, CIA or Even Homeland securities. We should employ or rather recruit more police. A nation whereby one can't boast of 1 million police. Check it out na. If we have 50 million police policing the activities of the country the crime rate will reduce drastically.
ReplyDeleteNigerian police have little or no training to combat these criminals,they should have un branded vehicles without sierens,in suituations like dis the criminals wouldn't have noticed that they were police officers futher more,they should be trained properly A̶̲̥̅♍ not saying they weren't trained at all but,they should trained specially. Its quite unfortunate that she died coz she recognised one of the criminals,in suitations like that people should avoid having eye to eye contact with criminals to avoid this senerio.
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