A Lagos community has learnt a lesson of life: never to trust anyone, including the security guards.

The community in Muwo, Ojo local government area of Lagos State shockingly found three members of a vigilance group, engaged to guard the residents,  stealing iron rods from a building  site.

Mr Adio Hassan, Chairman Muwo Community Residents Association, said that the suspects were arrested at about 2 a.m., while loading the iron rods into a truck.

“Some residents who observed the suspects while committing the crime alerted another vigilance group on patrol in the area.

“On getting to the building construction site, the vigilante group caught three of their members loading a large quantity of 16mm iron rods into a waiting truck and promptly arrested them,” the community leader said..

The robbery suspects were kept at the residence of the community head of the area before they were taken away in a police van from Ojo Division for further investigation.

Hassan urged residents to be security conscious and to always screen people properly before engaging them as security guards.

“It is true we commissioned them to secure the area, but as humans, we cannot read the minds of others,’’ Hassan said.

He assured the residents that other members of the vigilance group would be properly screened in order to weed out the bad ones among them.