…suspects arrested within a month
Juliana Francis
It was a harvest of suspects following the arrests and parade of 40 suspects today 25th May 2025, by the Lagos State Police Command.
According to the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Benjamin Hundeyin, the arrests were just some of the Command’s achievements in the fight against crime and criminality within the state in the past month.
His words: “We present to you today some of our achievements in the fight against crime and criminality within Lagos State in the past month or thereabout. Before you today we have a total of 40 suspects who have engaged in varying crimes including armed robbery, stealing, kidnapping, and cultism, among other crimes.
“From all of these cases which we successfully cracked, we recovered a total of eight arms, 16 live ammunition, six vehicles, one motorcycle, two axes, nine generators, seven TVs, two grinding machines, two knives, one home theater, 27 phones, Hard drugs and decomposing human hands.”
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Idowu Owohunwa, used the opportunity to assure Lagosians that the command will continue to do everything operationally possible to ensure that crime and criminality are brought to the barest minimum in the State.
