The Deputy Chairman of the African Action Congress in Lagos State has narrated his ordeals in the hand of armed robbers who robbed him and other motorist along the Ido area of Third Minland Bridge on Friday.
According to Olanrewaju, he was returning from work at Lekki when the incident happened, while explaining that there was little or nothing he could do to avert the incident from happening.
He said:
Those guys were robbing two cars ahead of me already around Third Mainland Bridge towards Ido,close to Inora Olopa, I couldn’t reverse because there was traffic. I immediately wound up the glass to at least protect myself.
“But as soon as they finished with those two cars, I just heard sounds from the two sides of my car, they broke the side windscreen and began demanding my phone and other things. They entered and removed money from my safe. They had cutlasses and knives. One of them removed everything in my safe, and made away with my power bank, an iPhone 6, and a laptop.
However, his ordeal seemed to be complicated when he ran to the police station to report the incident and one of the policemen asked him to pay N3,000 for his report to be documented.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the police in the area would review their strategy to improve security on the road.
The PPRO said, “We have linked him (Olanrewaju) up with the DPO and they are working hand-in-hand. He has given the DPO the necessary information that will help the DPO to review his anti-crime strategy in his domain.
“We are working on it and we believe that with the review of his strategies, such won’t happen again in that place.”
He added that the policeman that asked for N3,000 had been identified and invited to the headquarters while appropriate disciplinary action would be taken against her.
