Police authorities in Ogun State, on Sunday, May 31, 2020
announced the arrest of three members of an armed robbery syndicate.
DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State Police Command’s Public
Relations Officer disclosed that “the suspects were arrested following a
distress call received by the DPO Agbara Division that armed robbers had invaded
Idanyin community and were raiding house to house dispossessing their victims
of their belongings and inflicting various degrees of injuries on them.
Upon the distress
call, the DPO Agbara Division SP Saleh Dahiru quickly led his anti-robbery team
to the scene and met the robbers attacking the residences of one Barrister
Kamieyefa Omosivwe and that of Oluyemi Olajide”.
Oyeyemi stated that “on
sighting the police, the robbers launched an attack on them, but they were overpowered
and three members of the gang were eventually arrested while one of them
escaped”.
Names of the arrested members were given as Toheed Salami,
Ibrahim Ismaila and Michael Abiodun. Two locally made short guns were recovered
from them. The police spokesman also confirmed that the injured victim has been
taken to the hospital for medical attention.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered
the immediate transfer of the suspects to Special Anti-Robbery Squads SARS for
discreet investigation.
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