The Rapid Response Squad unit of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspected traffic robbers for assaulting and dispossessing a passerby of N25,000.

The command, in a statement on X, on Wednesday, said the suspects, 33-year-old Yemi Aparaojo, popularly known as Asa, and 37-year-old Samuel Adekunle, also known as Omo-jo–Ibo, were nabbed around 11:00 a.m., on Tuesday.

The command said, “Operatives of Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a unit of Lagos Police Command, on Tuesday morning arrested two notorious traffic robbers operating around Ketu and Mile 12, Kosofe.”

“The duo along with two others last week, at about noon robbed a passerby of his N25,000 while the victim was trying to assist them with some money when the group pestered him. The gang thereafter assaulted the man. The victim on sighting the leader of the gang, Adekunle, on Tuesday alerted RRS operatives, who rounded up the suspects. Two members of the gang escaped through Ketu market.”

The RRS Commander, Sola Jejeloye, has directed that the nabbed suspects be charged to court immediately while the team intensifies efforts to arrest other members of the gang still at large.

According to the command, the arrest was made after Mr Jejeloye, in compliance with the directives of the Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, reinforced response riders at Ketu and Mile 12, to stem the tide of crime on the corridor.