The Ogun State Police Command has said it has arrested one member of an armed robbery gang that terrorised motorists on the Long Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

It added that it was closing in on the three fleeing members of the gang.

A member of the gang was arrested by policemen attached to the Warewa Division on Christmas Day around 10pm while trying to dispossess stranded motorists of their belongings at gunpoint.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect, one Lucky Emmanuel, who claimed to be living at the Mile 12 area of Lagos State, was among the four suspected armed robbers, who attacked motorists on the bridge on Tuesday.

Oyeyemi added that the gang came out from under the bridge to rob some stranded passengers, whose bus had developed a mechanical fault.

He stated,

“While the driver was trying to fix the fault, the hoodlums suddenly came out from under the bridge and held the passengers hostage at gunpoint, ordering them to surrender all in their possession.

“Luck, however, ran out on them when policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer, Warewa Division, CSP Akinade Johnson, who were on a routine patrol on the bridge, arrived the scene.

“On sighting the police team, the hoodlums took to their heels and were hotly pursued by the policemen, and one of them, Lucky Emmanuel, was subsequently arrested, while the other three escaped.

“Recovered from the arrested suspect was a locally-made double-barrelled pistol with live ammunition”

Oyeyemi further said that the command’s operatives were closing in on the fleeing members of the gang, adding that they would soon be apprehended.

“We have launched a manhunt for the fleeing robbers. The interrogation of their arrested colleague is helping us to close in on them,” the PPRO stated.