Police recover ‘strange, first of its kind gun’ from robbery suspect in Lagos

By Deborah Akpede

The Lagos Police Command said it has recovered a strange, first of its kind gun from a 22-year-old tailor turned armed robber who was arrested on Eko Bridge, Toheeb Afolade.

Lagos Police Commissioner, Idowu Owohunwa said the weapon recovered from the suspect who was arrested at 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday on Eko Bridge, Lagos was a unique and strange gun called ‘Spyder Victor’.

“It is a unique weapon, this is strange, the first of its kind gas gun.

“The gun uses cartridges, we recovered some of the cartridges, we will get to the root of it because this is a new introduction,” he said.

Owohunwa said the suspect was arrested based on the concern raised by Lagos residents about the activities of traffic robbers.

“We deployed our operatives to cover some of those flashpoints and fortunately, last night, one of those traffic robbers was apprehended.

“The most unique thing about this is not just the arrest, but the recovery of this strange weapon from them,” he said.

The police boss said that the suspect and one other were apprehended but the other suspect died in the process of evading arrest.

“There were two of the suspects, one of them was arrested, the other, in an attempt to evade the police onslaught, jumped down from the bridge and essentially jumped to his death,” Owohunwa said.

While speaking during the parade, the suspect said his friend, Sodiq, lured him into armed robbery and gave him the gun.

He said that his friend gave him the weapon to join him to rob in order to make money.

“I was in my shop when my friend called me and handed a weapon over to me persuading me to join him in his robbing mission, so I complied,” he said.

Afolade, a resident of Amukoko, who claimed it was his first time, said that they were intercepted on their way.

“We took bikes and on our way, police officers started trailing us, and eventually arrested me,” he said.