News 📝 : Robbers abandon commercial bus with 6 passengers, phone and gun in Lagos after police chase (photos)

It was a lucky escape for six passengers in Lagos recently as they were freed by men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) from being held hostage by four armed robbers who had reportedly hijacked a danfo commercial bus.

The robbers fled leaving the bus, a handset and a gun, as disclosed by the commissioner of police in the state, Imohimi Edgal, at the command's headquarter while parading some suspected criminals arrested on Monday, April 16.

According to Edgal, the four robbers who boarded the bus heading to LASU - Iba route from Iyana Ipaja hijacked it from the driver immediately one of the passengers alighted at Diamond Estate, Isheri, Lagos

Sherrif Dada, the driver of the bus, said: “At around 11pm on Thursday, after returning from a chartered trip to Sango, my conductor and I went straight to our usual route at Egbeda to make some more money before the closing for the day. We saw lots of passengers at Egbeda Bus Stop who were heading to Igando.

Robbers hijack a danfo van, Abandon gun and phone after hot chase by police.

“We picked the passengers and we dropped the first passenger at Diamond Estate Bus Stop. Just after leaving the Bus Stop, one of the passengers, four guys in their 20s, brought out a gun and told me to stop.

“Just after pinning the gun to my head, the other robbers began to ransack the passengers particularly, a lady suspected to be carrying a handbag and her Infinix Note 4 android phone. The robbers began to scuffle with the lady to dispossess her of her belonging but the lady refused to surrender her bag to the gun-wielding bandits.

“It wasn't quite long before my conductor escaped that they threw me down on motion after sighting an RRS patrol vehicle chasing them. They felt I was not fast enough,” he stated.

Speaking also, Hakeem Hassan, the conductor said: “I was also held down at gun point after attempting to jump down from the moving bus to stop me from raising alarm. Unfortunately for them I managed to escape from the bus after the driver slowed down. I ran for my dear life. They threatened to shoot me but I defied all their threat to stop me from calling attention of those around the area.”

Abandoned gun and phone : Source (Nigerian Police)

“Immediately I manage to jump from the bus, I ran backward screaming for help and also hearing the robber telling me to stop that he was going to shoot me but I continued running until I ran into a filling station. It wasn’t quite long I had been screaming for help when I saw an RRS patrol vehicle speeding towards me. I guessed other road users who saw me had told them.”

One of the passengers said: “The chase by the police vehicle unsettled the four robbers. They instantly stopped collecting our valuables and were thinking of how to escape. As soon as we left Igando General Hospital, they drove the danfo into a bush and escaped leaving behind their only gun and mobile phone they took from one of the passengers.”

Commenting on the development, the police PRO, Chike Oti, said Lagos was no longer a safe zone for any criminal to operate adding that they would be caught if they risked it.

We earlier reported that some operatives of the Rapid Response Squad arrested four members of two different fraud syndicates operating in Lagos state.

The Lagos state police command of the RRS said the suspects operating in Ikeja, Maryland, Ojudu-Berger, Agege and Oshodi were arrested on Thursday and Saturday, August 24 and 26 respectively.

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