Breaking: Again! Man jumps Into Lagos Lagoon

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Barely 10 days after a man alighted from a call cab and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon, another young man past mid-night has leapt from an UBER car and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon.

The man, whose identity is being kept, jumped into the Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge at around midnight. But, fortunately, he landed on floating logs of wood beneath the Third Mainland Bridge.

According to the cab driver, he carried him “from Igando and he insisted I pass through the Third Mainland Bridge.

On getting to the bridge, he asked me whether this was Third Mainland Bridge and I answered yes.

He told me that he was pressed and that I should wait for him to ease himself. I was curious. At this time, he was forcing to me wait.

 I stylishly drove him to the point where Rapid Response Squad (RRS) were standing inward Lagos.

I practically told him I was no longer interested in the trip before I approached the police officers leaving him inside the car”, he stated.

According to an eyewitness, as soon as the “cab driver approached the police informing them of what his passenger was telling him, he got down from the Volkswagen Jetta car and jumped into the Lagoon  but he landed on floating logs of wood.

Before he jumped, one of the police officers who saw him approached the railings of the bridge and persuaded him not to jump.

He was thereafter taken to Lagos State Teaching Hospital from where he was referred to LUTH.

The incident was reported at Adekunle Police Station, Yaba.

POLICE NABS 3 ONE-CHANCE ROBBERS IN LAGOS

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The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three one-chance robbers on the Third Mainland Bridge while another jumped into the Lagoon with the gang’s loot.

The robbers, John Akinyemi, 27; Paul Oliseh, 37 and Amos Williams, 12, were arrested on Monday afternoon on the Third Mainland bridge after a chase by the Rapid Response Squad patrol team monitoring Iyana-Oworo.

The policemen after being informed that the one-chance robbers were operating around the area, chased the bus, a Volkwagen Transporter with the registration number, AKD 562 XP to the bridge.

The robbers, after being double crossed by the officers on the Third Mainland Bridge, abandoned their vehicle and were fleeing on foot when they were arrested.

One of the robbers, who was later identified as Junior, 19, was reportedly hit by speeding vehicles twice on the bridge before jumping off into the Lagoon.

According to the leaders of the gang, John Akinyemi, “there were four of us. I was in charge of calling the team to work.  It was our first trip for the day. We took four passengers in Estate Bus Stop in Alapere. They were going to Oshodi. We dispossessed them and dropped them off before Iyana-Oworo one after the other.

We took their phones and money. We have been doing this for more than three months. We sell the mobile phones and jewelry, and we share the money”.

One of the victims, Semiu Oluwaseun, who alerted the RRS officers immediately he was thrown out of the moving bus, said the robbers collected his phone and the sum of N500,000:00.

Another victim, Jamiu Ojuroye, who was robbed on Sunday, identified John Akinyemi as the driver of the bus he was robbed in. He noted that he was robbed on Sunday night and that the robbers team took N150,000:00 from him before threw him out of the speeding bus.

Ojuroye added that after struggling with the robbers, they poured a peppery substance on his face, took his money before throwing him off around 8:00 p.m.

The robbers were paraded today by Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, at the Command Headquarters.