Police operatives attached to Zone Two police command, Onikan, in Lagos State, have arrested two suspects who received stolen goods worth over N15 million.

suspects, identified as James Adeoba and Emeka Philip, were trailed to three states and were later nabbed and the stolen items recovered from them.

According to a police sergeant attached to the Lagos State command headquarters who spoke on the condition of anonymity, "Police trailed the suspects to Kwara, Taraba and Yola states before they could be located and arrested. Police recovered 23 fuel pumping machines from them valued at over N15m. Four generating sets were also recovered from them. We believe that the suspects belong to different robbery gangs."

Mr Peter Gana said police got a tip-off about their activities and moved operatives to the scenes.

The robbers were finally traced to Lagos SARS, Ikeja, where they had already been arrested by the officer in charge of SARS, Abba Kyari, and his men.

The second team traversed Kwara, Yola and Taraba states before they got Philip and Adeoba.

Adeoba was arrested in Kwara State and confessed to how some of the goods came to be in his possession. Following Philip's confession, police team went to Jalingo and Yola state where some of the stolen goods were recovered.

Philip said: "I never knew that the goods were stolen. I thought it would be a good business to buy and resell them. I bought the generating set each at N250, 000, but the real price in market is N500, 000."

ecalling how he met the suspected robbers that sold the items to him, Philip said: "I met them in Ibadan. I had gone there for my generator repair business. When Adeoba and I were about to purchase the generators, the sellers told us that the goods were sent to them by their brothers in Germany. We didn't know they were stolen items."

It was learnt that Gana has vowed to leave no stone unturned to stop criminals operating in Lagos and Ogun states.