By Ifeanyi Okolie
LAGOS — Three members of a notorious robbery gang that specialised in snatching cars from residents of Victoria Island, Lekki and Ajah axis of Lagos State, have been arrested by anti-robbery policemen attached to Bar Beach Police Station.

Vanguard gathered that the robbers, who have been terrorizing the area for a long time met their Waterloo separately on Saturday and Monday nights when they snatched two taxi cabs from their owners at gunpoint.
Sources disclosed that the bandits had attempted to use the snatched cabs to steal exotic cars.
A source, who spoke with Vanguard on condition of anonymity, said one of the suspects, Rasheed Yusuf, 20, was arrested when the anti-robbery policemen on patrol, led by the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Adegoke Fayoade, accosted the gang after they snatched a taxi from it owner on Idejo Street, Victoria Island and recovered the taxi, but two other gang members managed to escape.
The source also added that on Monday night, the two fleeing bandits, identified as Ade Yemi, 22, and Toyin Ajayola, 22, returned to Victoria Island with a taxi they snatched at Orile Igamu area.
The anti-robbery policemen intercepted them at Oyin Jolayemi Street, Victoria Island, while they were driving against traffic.
It was gathered that as the policemen tried to stop them, they escaped towards Cowrie Bridge outward Victoria Island, but were blocked by another team of policemen who were on stop and search at a pin down point by the bridge.
The robbers were said to have jumped out the vehicle, shooting indiscriminately in their bid to escape but the policemen shot them on the legs and arrested them.
However, sources further disclosed that the robbers confessed to several robberies within the mentioned area and one locally made pistol cut to size, assorted charms, face masks and five cartridges were recovered from them.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/police-nab-3-car-snatching-lagos/

Good for dem

3 industrious son. Why not concentrate on Agbero and Omonile we specialized on? Must we copy igbos?

Op, why did you highlight the names of the suspects??!! Smh for you • •

EMMASON125: 3 industrious son. Why not concentrate on Agbero and Omonile we specialized on? Must we copy igbos?

Copy Igbos? It is on record that the first executed armed robbers in Nigeria were of yoruba origins.
You people are hypocrites. Always trying to rewrite history. spite on you!

EMMASON125: 3 industrious son. Why not concentrate on Agbero and Omonile we specialized on? Must we copy igbos?

God punish u dia. Copy igbos unto wetin? You are so blind that you can't see the highlighted names abi. bush pig

banega: Op, why did you highlight the names of the suspects??!! Smh for you • •

The name was highlighted on the original article

swedbase:


Copy Igbos? It is on record that the first executed armed robbers in Nigeria were of yoruba origins.
You people are hypocrites. Always trying to rewrite history. spite on you!

Which history are u talking about? Derico, Osisikakwu etc are Ibo known criminals.

EMMASON125:
Which history are u talking about? Derico, Osisikakwu etc are Ibo known criminals.

Here is an assignment for you. In the 1970s, Oyenusi was no doubt the uncrowned emperor of Nigerian robbers and he is described as the ‘first celebrated armed robber in Nigeria’. He is regarded by some as the pioneer of conventional armed robbery in Nigeria. When Oyenusi reigned at the height of his regal confidence, he declared:
The Nigerian Civil War had just ended in 1970 but by the early 1970s, a stone-hearted armed robber, Ishola Oyenusi (he called himself Dr. Oyenusi even if he never finished the secondary school), was terrorising all of Lagos, Nigeria’s largest commercial centre. Before one tale of his daring exploits died down, another one had sprung up. Oyenusi was no ordinary pilferer, this snitcher was downright wicked and had all the self-confidence in the world to go with it. And you know something? He was quite romantic and chivalrous. There was a story of how he snatched his first car on Herbert Macaulay Road in Yaba, Lagos. Why? His girlfriend was broke. He eventually sold the car for N400 but the sad part was that in the process of stealing the car, the poor owner was shot dead. He actually snatched the first car he saw on the road. Such was the ferocious nature of his audacity.
Execution of the first Notorious Nigerian Robber ‘Doctor’ Ishola Oyenusi On The 8th of September, 1971.

Let the war begin !!!

Ibos shielded their robbers while Yoruba executed theirs, see the difference.

80% armed robbers in Nigeria are ibos.

swedbase:


Copy Igbos? It is on record that the first executed armed robbers in Nigeria were of yoruba origins.
You people are hypocrites. Always trying to rewrite history. spite on you!

Robbery is robbery,it's not about who started it but who took it upon as trade mark. Sorry i didn't mention any tribe oo

very good job from the police.

[[s]quote author=cruise14]Ibos shielded their robbers while Yoruba executed theirs, see the difference[/s].

80% armed robbers in Nigeria are ibos.



lies upon lies

cruise14: Ibos shielded their robbers while Yoruba executed theirs, see the difference.

80% armed robbers in Nigeria are ibos.

Yoruba's propoganda!