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Shagamu Interchange: Two suspected robbers caught in action

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
Shagamu Interchange: Two suspected robbers caught in action
Suspected armer robbers caught in action

Two suspected armed robbers have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command while operating at Shagamu Interchange area of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The suspects were caught on Saturday.

According to the spokesman of the police in Ogun State, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the two suspects, Solomon Aghofure, a 30 years old indigene of Delta State and Emmanuel Mathew, a 37 years old indigene of Abia State were arrested when the police patrol team of Shagamu division were on routine patrol of the expressway at about 1:30 am.

The suspects and their gang who had already positioned themselves at the interchange in readiness for attack on the commuter plying the road, opened fire on the passing patrol team led by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Okiki Agunbiade.

The team engaged them in shoot out at the end of which one of them sustained gunshot injuries and was subsequently apprehended.

Other members of the gang escaped into the bush abandoning their operational vehicle.

The bush was thoroughly combed from where the other suspect was also arrested.

A police corporal attached to the team also sustained gunshot injuries on his leg and was rushed to hospital for treatment.

On interrogation, the suspects informed the police that they were five in number in their gang.

They gave the names of others as Uche, also known as Two Million, Arinze and Uzor.

They further revealed that the three escaped members of the gang were ex-convicts who had served various jail terms in Okitipupa, Ondo State and Shagamu in Ogun State.

It was after their prison terms that they formed the gang and recruited them.

Meanwhile the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, who praised the gallantry performance of his men has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.

He also directed that the escaped members of the gang must be hunted for and brought to justice.

The CP therefore appealed to members of the public, especially hospitals, to quickly inform the police if anyone with gunshot injuries was seen in their vicinity.

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