By IFEANYI OKOLIE

LAGOS — The Lagos State Police Command yesterday said it has arrested five persons who took part in the armed robbery attack at the home of the  Special Adviser to the  Governor of Lagos State on Information and Strategy, Alhaji Lateef Raji, recovering a locally made gun, three cartridges and two laptop computers from the bandits.

Vangaurd gathered that the suspects who were arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS,  attacked Alhaji Raji’s at his Shomolu residence on November 13, 2012, where they dispossessed him of cash, phones, laptop and other valuables.

Sources at SARS, who took part in the investigation, gave the identities of the suspects as Momoh Jimoh, Sheidu Musari, Sadiq Dauda,  Ahmed Abdulkareem and Moruf Babarunde.

A source who craved anonymity, intimated Vanguard after exhaustive follow-up of the case, adopted both  phone tracking method and other tactics in trailing the suspects.

According to the source; “Our efforts paid off and the three notorious armed robbers Momoh Jimoh, a.k.a Jamiu; Sheidu Musari and Sadiq Dauda, all Igbira  tribe, were arrested with a locally made gun with five cartridges .