How Lagos RRS Arrested Notorious Serial Phone Thief | AgegePulse Magazine

...recover 5 different stolen Android phones.

By Ayodele Ifasakin 

The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS), have arrested a serial phone thief who journeys in and out of Lagos for the sole purpose of phone theft.

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The suspect, Olajide Balogun 'M' (36), an indigene of Akoko, in Ondo State, was arrested by the RRS decoy team, who covertly monitored the suspect as he was carting away his loots on a motorcycle, along shasha road, in Alimosho Lagos.

The suspect on sighting the closely advancing RRS operatives, jumped off the motorcycle and took to heel, in an attempt to evade arrest; he was however, pursued and apprehended by the determined decoy team of the Agency.

Upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime and demonstrated his modus operandi when on operation to steal phones from his target victims.

Furthermore, the suspect confessed to have receivers of his loots at Computer Village and named on 'Emeka' as his major receiver.

The suspect will however be charged to court in line with the directive of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police CP Hakeem Odumosu.

How RRS Arrested Notorious 'One Chance' Gang in Lagos

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A dismissed Private Airforce personnel and leader of one chance robbery gang using Sienna car to operate in various parts of the Lagos metropolis, has been arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command.

The suspect, Matthew Tokeme, 50 years old was arrested on Tuesday with his Sienna car.

Tokeme with his four other gang members, investigations revealed operated in Ojodu to CMS route, Abule to CMS, Iyana – Ipaja to Ikeja routes between 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m targeting mostly women as passengers.

Tokeme, whose other gang members operated with nicknames – Papa, Brown, Oyeewo and Segun, maintained a closely knit gang.

Tokeme, who is the owner of the Sienna vehicle with number plate APP 488 FH, disclosed to the police that the blue Sienna was sent to him by his friend based in Germany.

The gang after taking their victims dispossessed them of their valuable before dropping them in desolate locations early in the morning.

One of the victims (name withheld) informed the Commander, Rapid Response Squad, DCP Olatunji Disu about the activities of the gang before he ordered RRS Decoy to go after the one chance gang.

The victim revealed that the gang dropped her in Billings Way, Ikeja at dawn after dispossessing her of an HP laptop, hard drive and money.

According to Tokeme, “my friend, who is based in Germany, bought the car for me to be using for commercial purposes. He bought the car for me because he realised that my business was not going on well. But I started using the car for ‘one chance’ and was operating between Abule-Egba and Ijaiye from 5:00 a.m to 6:00 a.m.

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Lagos police arrest 40 ‘Awawa hoodlums, list names

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Following the recent report on notorious gang group "Awawa boys" terrorising residents of Agege and Lagos at large.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal has arrested about forty Awawa boys terrorising the people of Agege, he says that, the command has intensified its efforts to rein in members of a cult group in the Agege area of the state, whom he described as “hoodlums and very dangerous”.

The cultists, widely known in Lagos, and in Agege particularly as ‘Awawa boys’, have assumed wide notoriety in the Lagos metropolis as killers, robbers and rapists.



Edgal disclosed that the police rounded up about 40 members of the cult group in the latest raid of their hideout on Friday November 2, 2018.

At a press conference at the Command Headquarters on Monday, the police boss expressed worry that the Awawa boys had become a serious menace to residents of Agege and its environs.



Some police sources at the conference told Daily Trust that the Awawa boys publicly robbed and maimed their victims, and as well raped some women and their daughters as they flaunted their strength and dominance in the Agege area.

Edgal said that various dangerous weapons like guns, axes, cutlasses and hammers, as well as charms were recovered from members of the cult group that the police arrested.

He said that during interrogation, the suspects claimed their herbalists had assured them the charms would make them invincible but wondered why the charms failed and the police were able to arrest them.

Edgal gave the names of those arrested as including Olarenwaju Shakiru Ashamu, 30; Aloye Godwin, 24; Ibrahim Yakubu, 19; Seun Fawole, 30; Macarty Taiwo, 27; Otobong Saturday, 27; Otobong James, 25;  Ismaila Isha, 34; Saliu Dauda, 19; and Chinedu Ogu, 24.

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