Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad,RRS, a unit of Lagos State Police Command have arrested four suspects for allegedly swindling members of the public of various sums of money.

The four suspects were picked up separatelyby the operatives in three incidents of fraud in Maryland, Ojodu Berger and Ajegunle between Tuesday and Thursday last week.

The suspects, Kenneth Umukoro, 36; Uba Utokcha, 41; Joseph Onuoha, 40 and Ikechukwu Okeke, 25, individually confessed to RRS officers during interrogation.

According to one of the victims, Ibeh Chiwenu, she was going to Ojodu Berger from Ojota when Kenneth Umukoro, driving a ash colour Toyota Camry 1997 model with the registration number SMK 886 DK stopped at the bus stop to pick her.

The two other suspects, Joseph Onuoha and Ikechukwu Okeke were arrested separately but in similar circumstances on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Onuaha, disclosed to interrogators that he belonged to a fraud syndicate led by one man simply identified as Toronto, adding that their leader, who is now at large, trained over 40 of them to go out daily in search of would-be victims.

Responding to the development, the Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police, Dolapo Badmos, said police won’t relent on their duties of making the state crime free but warned members of the public to be wary of suspicious dealings.

The four suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti.