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Lagos Police Arrest 80 Suspects in One Week; Two Armed Robbers Killed in Shootout
Lagos police arrested 80 suspects in one week; two suspected armed robbers were killed in a shootout on Gasikia Road, Ijora-Badia.
Why it matters
The Lagos State police chief announced a week-long sweep: 80 suspects arrested and multiple firearms and stolen vehicles recovered — the city's largest recent public-safety operation, directly affecting residents' safety.
Full report
Police Commissioner Fatai Tijani announced on October 7 at the Ikeja command headquarters that 80 suspects were arrested between October 1 and 7, covering armed robbery, highway robbery, recruitment scams and infrastructure vandalism.
At about 10 PM on October 4, a gun battle broke out on Gasikia Road in Ijora-Badia: two suspected robbers were killed and one was arrested, with two Beretta pistols and four rounds of 9mm ammunition recovered.
The week-long operation recovered four Beretta pistols, eight locally-made pistols, six vehicles, six phones, plus axes, machetes, a toy gun and rail materials. Twenty-nine suspects were arrested over highway robberies along the Lekki-Epe corridor and nine over vandalism of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway facilities.
Nineteen recruitment-scam suspects (17 men and two women) were arrested in the Tori-Lovi community for allegedly defrauding people with fake job offers. A three-man gang — Chubuzor Anasihwe, Uchenna Steven and Ejike Ani — accused of robbing a traditional monarch of his crown on the Ife highway was arrested in Lagos.
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