The remaining two members of a robbery syndicate operating on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Special Anti-Robbery Squads, SARS.
The two suspects, Yinusa Isah and Ibrahim Muhammed, were traced to Lokoja in Kogi State by the CSP Tijani Muhammed-led SARS who took over the case from Owode Egba division where three members of the gang were earlier arrested.
According to the spokesman of Ogun State Police Command, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a press statement, the gang had on July 17 blocked the Alapako end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and forcefully stopped a Mazda commercial bus with two occupants and subsequently dispossessed the occupants of cash sum of#545,000 and an itel phone after beating them mercilessly with cutlass.
A distress call was subsequently made to DPO Owode Egba division who raced to the scene with his men apprehended three members of the gang.
The case was transferred to SARS where the suspects made useful statements that led the operatives to Lokoja where the remaining two members of the gang were apprehended on the July 24, 2020.
Recovered from them are three cutlasses and a wood crafted to look like a gun.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward A Ajogun, has ordered that the stretch of the expressway be properly combed to rid it of criminal elements.
He also directed a 24 hour physical police presence on the highway so as to guarantee the security of lives and property on the highways across the state.
