A legionnaire impersonating official of the Lagos State Taskforce on Special Offences to rob motorcycle riders popularly called “okada” in Agege and its environs, has been arrested.

The suspect, Umam Hrmid, from Borno, a 2LT of Nigerian Legion, Lagos State Command, was arrested by RRS operatives in Agege after dispossessing one Amin Al–Hassan of his motorcycle.

The suspect arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad,RRS, a unit of the Lagos State Police Command was working with his accomplice, Tijani Bashir, now at large, had accosted his victim, Al–Hassan, at Total Filling Station, Agege and told him that he was a policeman attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Special Offences.

He told his victim that he was impounding his motor cycle for plying restricted area and for operating at prohibited hour.

Bewildered, Al–Hassan began to plead for negotiation but Hrmid told him to bring N20, 000:00 but the victim could only produce N5,000:00, which the suspect rejected.

At the RRS’s Headquarters, three other victims from whom Hrmid had collected bikes weeks before he was caught, came with particulars of their bikes, alleging that Hrmid, along with an accomplice, whom they described took their bikes.

The victims, Shuaib, Abdullahi, Umaru Hassan and Salisu Umaru, stated that the suspect collected their motor cycles in a spate of three weeks, and that one his victims was shot at a close range in the cheek at Shoretire Street, Agege.

The suspect, however, failed to deny the allegations of the three other victims when they confronted him.

Speaking on the development, Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmos confirmed the arrest of the suspect, stressing that his arrest might help shed more light on reported cases of motor cycles theft in Agege and its environs.

Badmos, a Superintendent of Police said the suspect had been transferred to Specail Anti-Robbery Squad,SARS, for further investigations.