Four suspected members of a Lagos-based robbery gang have been arrested by operative of Ogun State Police command.
The men, suspected to have been terrorising Ode-Remo of Ogun State, were arrested on March 13, 2023.
The suspects – Habeeb Salaudeen, 24; Ezekiel Jayesimi, 30; Olamilekan Teniola, 22 and Olaitan Sonibare, 25 – were arrested following a distress call received by policemen attached to Ode-Remo divisional headquarters at about 2:30 a.m. that armed robbers numbering about seven had invaded a dwelling house at COTCO Road, Ode-Remo, and dispossesing the residents of their belongings.
According to the spokesman of the police command in Ogun State, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, upon the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer, Ode-Remo division, CSP Fasogbon Olayemi, led his men to the scene.
On getting there, they engaged the hoodlums in gun battle, but the robbers managed to escape in a white Rav 4 car which they came with.
Luck, however, ran against them when they were accosted by policemen at Warewa who stopped them having seen the bullet hole on their vehicle.
The robbers subsequently abandoned the car and ran away.
They were technically trailed to Mushin area of Lagos where four amongst them were apprehended.
They have all confessed to the commission of the crime.
Recovered from them are four I-phones and 13 Android phones.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Frank Mba, has directed that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for discreet investigation.
The CP also ordered a massive manhunt for the remaining members of the gang, with the view to bring them to justice.
