Operatives of Rapid Response Squad,RRS, have arrested the suspected member of an Eight-man robbery gang, Abdullahi Olanrewaju.

RRS, a unit of the Lagos State Police Command, made the arrests during their operations at Abeje and Onibeju Streets, off Capitol road in Agege Local Government area of the state.

The operatives, who were led to the scene of the robbery by Inspector Anthony Inege, noted that one of the victims, who managed to escape through the window, alerted them that armed men were operating in their building.

The officers followed the complainant to the robbery scene where they met men of underworld numbering about eight in an attempt to enter another building on the street.

It was gathered that while robbers sighted the police, they opened fire at them.

The swift response from the RRS operatives, who were on patrol routine in the area, led to the arrest one of them while others made away with two pump action guns, a sum of N549,500 and other valuables.

The suspect, who hails from Ita-Amoju in Kwara State, confessed to RRS investigators that he was lured into the robbery with a promise by his gang members that they would buy a commercial bus for him after the operation.

The items recovered from the arrested suspect were one cut-to-size pump action, Jack Knife, two laptops, 14 handsets, wrist watch and Two Thousand and Six Hundred Naira (2,600).

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmos, said the suspect was helping the Police with investigation in order to arrest the fleeing robbers.

Badmos, Superintendent of Police, assured that the Police Command would leave no stone unturned to relegate and suppress any criminal who wants to disturb the existing peace the good people of the state was enjoying at the moment.