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No Robbery Incident At Ikoyi –Police

Lagos State Police Command says that social media reports of robbery incident and arrest of six armed robbery suspects in Ikoyi are not true.
This was made known in a statement by the State Command, Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana on Thursday.
Elkana said, “Attention of Lagos State Police Command is drawn to a viral video and reports on social media claiming that there was a robbery incident in Ikoyi on 17/6/2020 and six armed robbers were arrested. The report is completely false, mischievous and misleading.
“What actually happened is that, some LAWMA officials used their truck to block another vehicle that they earlier had misunderstanding with its driver thereby causing a traffic gridlock.
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“As they were arguing, a military patrol team, passing by and caught in the artificial gridlock went to find out the cause of the traffic, arrested all those involved in causing the obstructions and handed them over to the Police.
“No robbery incident took place nor arms/ammunition recovered from anybody as speculated. The six suspects arrested are traffic offenders not armed robbers.”
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