A retired Assistant Superintendent of Police, Obosa Augustine, and a Police sergeant serving at the Oworo Police Division, Lagos State, Yakubu Aiyegba, have been arrested for alleged robbery.

Operatives from the Shasha Police Station arrested the duo, alongside a taxi driver identified as Godwin George.

Aiyegba and Augustine paraded themselves as operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, while raiding a hotel in Egbeda and extorting money from guests in the facility.

They were said to have collected the sum of fifty thousand naira and a laptop from an unnamed guest few weeks back and fled the area in a taxi driven by George.

The suspects ran out of luck when operatives from the Shasha division, who acted on a tip-off, stormed the hotel and picked them up as they were allegedly in the middle of another raid.

the three suspects, led by the retired ASP, went back to the facility – Ehis Hotel – on Wednesday on another extortionate raid.

They were allegedly in the middle of the act when operatives from the Shasha division, who acted on a tip-off, stormed the hotel and picked them up.

Police Public Relations Officer, Olarinde Famous-Cole confirmed the arrest, saying investigations were ongoing.

Famous-Cole, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, said the suspects were subsequently transferred to SARS in Ikeja.