Four people have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for extorting money from motorists in the state while posing as officials of the now-defunct Lagos State Committee on the Removal of Abandoned Vehicles.
According to a statement issued Friday by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, the suspects were apprehended by Rapid Response Squad Operatives.
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Taiwo Falodun, aka Biggy (48), Adedire Olaniyi (42), Femi Osunkoya (53) and Olalekan Edu are the suspects who have been arrested (51).
Adedire and Osunkoya, two of the suspects, were apprehended yesterday after impounding a motorist’s vehicle for changing lanes at Alausa, according to Hundeyin.
“The motorist stated that the suspects took her vehicle to a parking lot in front of Elephant Cement House, where she was asked to pay a fine of N50,000,” the statement read. Her friends, on the other hand, contacted the Rapid Response Squad (RRS).
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“The RRS responded quickly, arrested the suspects, and began preliminary investigations.” During the investigation, their leader, Taiwo Falodun, arrived with a government official, Olalekan Edu, to request the release of the arrested suspects. They were both taken into custody as well. “The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc has directed the Commander RRS, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi to charge the suspects to court at the conclusion of investigations,” according to RRS fingerprint records.
