Hyacinth Chinweuba
The Lagos State Police Command, has dismissed a viral video and reports on social media claiming that there was a robbery incident in Ikoyi on 17/6/2020 and six armed robbers were arrested.
Bala Elkana, spokesman of the Command said the report is completely false, mischievous and misleading.
“What actually happened is that, some LAWMA officials used their truck to block another vehicle that they earlier had misunderstanding with its driver thereby causing a traffic gridlock.
As they were arguing, a military patrol team, passing by and caught in the artificial gridlock went to find out the cause of the traffic, arrested all those involved in causing the obstructions and handed them over to the Police.
“No robbery incident took place nor arms/ammunition recovered from anybody as speculated.
The six suspects arrested are traffic offenders not armed robbers.” said Elkana.
He advised member of the public to disregard this and go about their lawful businesses adding that the Command has reassured all law abiding people of Lagos state of its continued preparedness to protect their lives and properties.