Police Arrests Suspected Attackers on Journalist With Tinubu’s Convoy in Lagos

Suspected hoodlums had on June 19 attacked the convoy along the Adeniji Adele Road in Lagos Island shortly after Tinubu returned to Lagos from Abuja where he won the APC presidential Primaries

The suspects were arrested by detectives attached to Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos, during raids on their hideouts in Lagos Island.

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2, Bode Adeleke confirmed the development in a statement issued on Friday by the zone’s Public Relations Officer, Hauwa Idris-Adamu.

Adeleke said the suspects confessed they were recruited by different gang leaders based in Lagos Island.

He said: “They also belong to various cult fraternities. Investigations are still ongoing and we will get back to the press as soon as we have the principal suspect in our net.”

Also added that JUS Partners Cosmopolitan Limited (a telecommunication consultant and project manager to Airtel Network Limited); that in the early hours of the day, armed men stormed their premises Yaba in Lagos with a truck, overpowered the security guards on duty and carted away Sixteen “16” Drums of Optic Fibre Cable (OFC) valued.

Upon receipt of the petition, the Assistant Inspector General of Police AIG Adeleke Adeyinka Bode, mni detailed the officer in-charge of AIG Monitoring CSP Uba Adams to investigate and ensure.

Investigation into the matter revealed that the armed robbers who are presently at large scaled the fence to the company yard where the Optic Fibre Cables are kept, tied the security guards on duty and stole Sixteen Drums of the cable in a truck