A notorious traffic robber, Mr. Bashiru Muhammed, who was arrested by the operatives of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) has been jailed for 17 months by Magistrate Sakirat Obasa of the Lagos State Mobile Court (LSMC), for ‘stealing’ and ‘conduct likely to cause breach of public peace.

Muhammed, 28, who has no fixed home address, was arrested under the Ojota pedestrian bridge by the RRS team on routine surveillance patrol, after his gang violently robbed and dispossessed a pedestrian of cash, Infinix android phone and hand bag. But the rest of his gang escaped.

He was sentenced for an offence punishable under Section 287 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.

Complaints from members of the public on the activities of traffic robbers along the Ojota axis necessitated increased presence of the RRS teams around the Ojota, Maryland, Ketu, Mile 12, China Town, Abiola Garden.

In a related development, another suspect, Lukmon Ojo ‘M’ (25yrs) was also arrested over the weekend by RRS monitoring team for loitering around ‘Abiola Garden’ and was charged for Conduct Likely to Cause Breach of peace and sentenced to one month imprisonment with N50,000 as option of a fine yesterday by same magistrate of the LSMC.

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