Two of the robbery suspects, who were arrested while they were operating on Iju Road, in the Agege area of Lagos, have escaped from the police cell.
It was learnt that 3 suspected members of the gang, who reportedly attacked and robbed a hotel and some residences of Sands Avenue, off Iju Road, had been handed over to the Pen Cinema Police Division, before two of them escaped from the cell.
It was gathered that policemen, who were on duty on the fateful day, had been arrested, while the fleeing suspects are yet to be captured.
According to reports, on Sunday, August 9, at about 2am, about 10 armed robbers, invaded the area, and robbed a hotel and some private homes and they carted away money and valuables from the hotel lodgers, workers, and other places during the operation.
It was gathered that men of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, who were the local vigilance group in the area, however, apprehended 3 of the robbers and took them to the Pen Cinema Police Division.
It was there that the three robbery suspects, identified as Dare Drain, Akeem AK, and Lekan Student, were locked up in the cell by the policemen on duty.
It was gathered that on Wednesday evening, two of the suspects however, cut through the burglar bars in the cell, and escaped from custody.
Victims of the robbery and the OPC men, who were aggrieved by the development, were said to have been invited by policemen to the station who pacified them and assured them that the robbers would be re-arrested.
When PUNCH Metro visited Sands Avenue on Tuesday, the manager of the hotel, which was robbed, declined to give any comment.
However, one of the workers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the robbers carted away a huge amount of money and also injured the hotel’s guard.
He added that the robbers raped some of the hotel’s female workers, who had yet to resume work.
He said:
