Robbers On Okada Attack Mafoluku Residents

There was pandemonium on Sunday afternoon as robbers operating on okada terrorised residents of Mafoluku for hours and snatched cash, phones and other personal items.

P.M.NEWS learnt that at about 2.15pm yesterday, two armed robbers arrived Oluyeye Street in Mafolulu and raided about seven shops on the street.

When P.M.NEWS correspondent arrived the area, it was observed that the owner of Tahirra shop, as well as the chemist located near the Mountain of Fire Church on Oluyeye street were still shocked by the robbery incident

Further checks revealed that a female shop owner, whose shop is located very close to Ajibulu street was robbed of N28,000 cash, while another shop owner, who simply identified himself as Kingsley abandoned his provision shop and ran for dear life.

Some residents said that despite repeated calls made to the police at Makinde Police Station, no single cop showed up during the robbery attack.

It was long after the robbers had left the area that some police officers in mufti arrived the area.

When our reporter arrived Makinde Police Station at about 4pm to see the Divisional Police Officer over the incident, a female officer at the counter said the DPO was not around.

Calls made to him were unsuccessful as his phone was switched off.

Samuel Jinadu, the Lagos Police spokesman said that he had not been officially briefed on the robbery incident.

—Emannuel Udom