Three suspected highway robbers have been arrested by the operatives of the Ogun State Police Command at Alapako area along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The suspects who were arrested on Friday are Uzefa Idris, Adamu Yakubu and Ayuba Buhari.
They were arrested following a distress call received by the DPO, Owode Egba division, that a Mazda bus had been forcefully stopped on the highway by a gang of armed robbers and the occupants were being dispossessed of their belongings.
According to the police spokesman in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, upon the distress call, the DPO, Owode Egba, SP Mathew Ediae, led his anti robbery team to the scene.
On sighting the policemen, the hoodlums took to their heels but were chased into the bush where three amongst them were apprehended.
The two victims of their operation Oluwakemi Oyegade who was dispossessed of N545,000 and one itel phone as well as the driver Zacheaus Olaniyi were rescued to the station.
The two victims narrated that the hoodlums jumped on the road from the bush and forcefully stopped the vehicle consequent upon which they started beating them with matchet before dispossessing them of their valuables.
Recovered from the arrested ones are the sum of#99,700 and one itel phone.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to special anti-robbery squads SARS for discreet investigation and prosecution.
