Daredevil daylight robbers return to Lagos streets

<p>Residents are currently lamenting over what looks like a surge in armed robbery cases on Lagos streets and roads.</p>, <p>PUNCH Metro reports that amid the recent frequent raids on some streets such as Lawani Street, off Ishaga Road, Surulere, where armed robbers stole cash and properties on the night of July 18, other residents said robbery cases were now extending to roads, including during daytime.</p>, <p>“They robbed the (Surulere) area that week and the week after it,” a resident, Biodun, told one of our correspondents on Wednesday.</p>, <p>A resident in the Abule Egba area, who gave his name simply as Juwon for fear of reprisal, also narrated how some hoodlums wielding knives robbed him of his phone and subsequently emptied his account the same day.</p>, <p>“I was returning from the Afrikan Shrine where I went to attend Seun Kuti’s show last week. But in the morning when we were returning, I alighted from a tricycle when some boys in the area accosted me. They took my Tecno phone. They both had knives. It was around 7am. Before I got to the bank that day, I discovered that N27,000 that was in my account had gone,” Juwon told PUNCH Metro on Wednesday.</p>, <p>In the Akowonjo-Egbeda area of the Alimosho Local government Area, residents said robbers invaded houses in the early hours of July 13 and made away with cash and properties.</p>, <p>A woman who identified herself simply as Mama Sarumi, a trader along Benesther Junction said the hoodlums arrived around 2am and shot indiscriminately.</p>, <p>She said, “They came with one LT Volkswagen bus that had no number plate and when they came down, they started to shoot in the air. I lost my phone to them. They also robbed some of the people like me who sell here in the middle of the night and they collected phones and money from them. They were not even afraid of the police. They were not in a hurry. They just divided themselves into groups and were ‘obtaining’ people.</p>, <p>“Many people ran into Oke, Ajani Akingbogun and Alhaji Idowu Streets. I don’t think