A 24-year-old Afolayin Sunday, whose area of armed robbery specialization was to attack and dispossess female POS attendants of cash sales, has been arrested by the Ogun state police command.
According to a press statement released by the command’s spokesperon, Abimbola Oyeyemi, Sunday who is a NCE graduate of Maths/Computer from Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto-Ijanikin, Lagos, was arrested following a violent attack on a POS attendant in Ijoko area of Ogun State on June 6th.
He had approached the female attendant, one Adesina Omolola, at a POS point, on the pretence of wanting to transact a business, only to, thereafter, attack her, dispossessing the victim of the cash sales already made.
”The suspect walked into the POS shop, pretended to be a customer who came to transact business. Realizing that the victim was alone in the shop, he grabbed her on the neck and brought out a UTC knife”.
He ransacked the lady’s drawer and made away with the cash sale of #42, 000 before bolting.
The victim raised alarm and the suspect was apprehended.