The supervisor of Skepter petrol station, Daniel Freedom, 20, and an attendant, Mike Charles, 20, are being held by the police in Lagos for allegedly masterminding a robbery attack on the filling station located at Igbo-Elerin, a Lagos suburb.
Also arrested for the crime are four armed robbery suspects who the police said were responsible for most of the attacks on fuel stations in the Ojo and Ikotun areas of Lagos.
The police alleged that the two employees of the filling station had been feeding information on the movement of cash in and out of the facility to the suspected robbers, identified as Obinna Ofoma, 25; Ndukwa Junior, 22; William Okon, 22; and Tony Oluchukwu, 28.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, who paraded the suspects yesterday at the Command headquarters, Ikeja, said that on October 28, 2018, at 9pm, the Command received information that an armed gang was robbing fuel attendants and customers at the Skepter petrol station.
Edgal said that on receipt of the information, operatives from the Ilemba-Hausa police station and policemen from the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Lagos Command, jointly mobilized to the scene.
He added that before the team could get to the station, the robbers had fled.
The police Commissioner said policemen were, however, able to arrest the suspects later in the night in their hideout and recovered two toy guns, three knives and one axe from them.
“The suspects confessed that they specialized in robbing petrol stations in the Ojo, Ikotun, Igando and Ilemba-Hausa axes of Lagos, and that Freedom and Charles were the masterminds of the robbery operation at Skepter filling station,” he said.
