PUNCH Metro learnt that the teenager was nabbed by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad around 8pm on Saturday...
Our correspondent gathered that Taiwo and an accomplice, identified only as Abdullahi, who is at large, attempted to rob the driver, identified as Okeke.
It was learnt that the duo had allegedly used a jackknife to dispossess the victim of two mobile phones, money and other valuables, before the police arrested the teenager.
Taiwo, however, denied the robbery, saying it was his runaway friend who robbed and dropped the jackknife beside him.
He said, “I was going to take the tricycle to Oyingbo, when I heard the shout of ‘thief, thief.’ I saw Abdullahi drop handsets and a jackknife. That was how the police arrested me.
“I know where Abdullah lives. He is the one that put me in this problem. I had only followed him to Iddo.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, could not yet be reached for comment on the incident.
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