Seven suspects have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing two uber drivers in separate incidents in the Lekki and Ajah areas of the state.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olarenwaju Olawale Ishola, confirmed this on Saturday while briefing newsmen on his command’s achievements .
The murders, according to Ishola, we’re committed by a four-man gang and a three-man gang respectively, and the blood-baying criminals are now cooling their heels in police cells, singing like canaries.
According to the Commissioner of Police, the four-man gang includes: Emeka Akwara, 19; David Segun, 21; Samuel Ariori, 21; and Lukman Ariori, 19.
The police commissioner said: “On Jan. 9, the suspects ordered for an Uber at Chevron in the Lekki area – en-route Obalende. On getting to Obalende in a lonely area, they robbed and killed the driver by stabbing him multiple times in the neck, unfortunately they were unable to snatch the vehicle.
“With the intervention of good Samaritan and passerby, two suspects were immediately apprehended and handed over to police and further investigation led to the arrest of other two fleeing suspects.
“The deceased’s corpse was deposited in the Morgue at Mainland Hospital Yaba and a Toyota Camry Big Daddy. AGL 650 HN and Knives were recovered from them, ” he said.
Investigation in the crime is ongoing, the CP added.
Ishola also narrated how the second gang, a three-member gang, was nabbed, on September 12, 2024, naming them as: Edmond Julius, 34; Abdullahi Umar, 32; and Saturday Oke, 40.
The gang, he said, confessed to brutally murdering was another Uber driver, Oluwaseyi Fowler.
“Arrested suspects confessed that they kidnapped the driver at Ajah area of Lagos, murdered and robbed him of his Toyota Camry,” CP Ishola continued.
“They sold the robbed Toyota Camry car to their criminal receiver. They led the police to recover the decomposed body of the deceased and (the) said Toyota Camry. ”
Revealing that the suspects in the two tragic incidents have been charged to court, the CP advised drivers involved in Uber, Taxify, Lag Ride and others to be wary of their passengers.
“If possible do not carry more than one passenger at a time and insist such a fellow is searched and make him sit at the front with you,” Ishola said, adding:
“This is just the third of its kind reported or detected in three months. We don’t know how many that have happened.”
The CP then informed that plans were afoot to train drivers operating in the aforesaid organisations on precautionary security measures they must take to protect themselves from passengers with evil intensions.
