Photo:Two traffic robbers aged 22,25 respectively stole N23,500 from victim's pocket inside a bus in Lagos.

Mr Oyakhilome Okonkwo and Oche Joseph were on Tuesday nabbed by officials of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in Lagos state for alleged robbery.
The suspects, aged 22 and 25 respectively, allegedly disguised as bus passengers and stole N23, 500 from a commuter at U-Turn in the Agbado boundary between Lagos and Ogun states.

The yet-to-be-identified commuter, according to the Punch, alighted at the U-Turn junction and he observed that his money was missing.
He, however, alerted the police on patrol who reportedly searched the commuters in the bus, during which the two suspects were found with the money.

Confessing to the crime, Joseph who resides at Mosalasi Street in the Ojo area of the state said he had done several vocations, but none had fetched him money like stealing.
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He said, “The Agbado area is the most lucrative route for this business. There are too many pickpockets on the Oshodi-Mile 2 route. I decided to choose Agbado because pickpockets are not many there.

“We usually monitored our victims coming out of banks and we would follow them into buses.

“Tuesday), we were at the bus stop where the victim was but we could not remove the money at the bus stop.

“So, we followed him into a bus and we began to pick the money from his pocket. The money was in N500 denomination, so it was difficult to remove the entire money at once.

“I started removing the money in tranches, but unfortunately for us, the passenger alighted not far from the bank.

“On most occasions, we alight before the victim and we would run away. But the man alighted before us, noticed that his money had been taken and he raised the alarm.”

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the arrest of the suspected traffic robbers.

“We have recovered the stolen money, N23, 500 and the suspects, Oyakhilome Okonkwo and Oche Joseph, have been detained.