Robbers hijack commercial bus in Lagos, rob passengers

The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday forced four armed robbers to abandon a hijacked commercial bus, a gun and six passengers whom they had held hostage while in transit. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, disclosed this while parading some suspected criminals. It was gathered […]

The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday forced four armed robbers to abandon a hijacked commercial bus, a gun and six passengers whom they had held hostage while in transit. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, disclosed this while parading some suspected criminals.

It was gathered that the four robbers who boarded the bus heading to LASU-Iba route from Iyana Ipaja, seized the bus from the driver after a passenger alighted at Diamond Estate, Isheri, Lagos.

The driver, Sherrif Dada, said “Just after leaving the bus stop, four guys in their 20s brought out a gun and told me to stop and the other robbers began to ransack the passengers particularly, a lady carrying a handbag. 

“The robbers began to scuffle with the lady to dispossess her of her belonging as she refused to surrender her bag to them despite gun they held. They threw me out while the bus was on motion after sighting an RRS patrol vehicle chasing them. They felt I was not driving fast enough.”

One of the passengers added that, “The chase by the police vehicle unsettled the four robbers. They stopped collecting passengers’ valuables and were thinking of how to escape. As soon as we left Igando General Hospital, they drove the Danfo into a bush and escaped leaving behind their gun and the mobile phone they took from one of the passengers.”