The suspect was arrested on Sunday, December 11, 2022.

The suspect was arrested following a distress call received by policemen at Agbado divisional headquarters, that armed robbers were operating at Fadunsi Ijoko area of Agbado, in Ifo local government area of Ogun State.

Upon the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Agbado division, SP Awoniyi Adekunle, quickly led his men to the scene where it was discovered that while the armed robbers were escaping after robbing one Bashirat Anibire, a POS operator of her bag containing the cash sum of N400,000 and her Itel phone, the robbers shot and killed one 25 years old Qudus Popoola, and also injured one Faleye Oluwaseun.

READ ALSO: Amotekun arrests four over attempted murder, kidnapping

The robbers were hotly chased, and with the help of youths in the area, one of them Moses Ayomide was apprehended, while others escaped.

The injured victim was rushed to hospital for medical attention while the corpse of the deceased was released to the family on request that they needed to bury him in accordance with their religious belief.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the robbers who are three in number, came on a motorcycle without light at about 7 p.m. and attacked Bashirat Anibire who was just closing from her POS shop.

The victim managed to escape from the robbers, but while running away with her seven years old son, the robbers got hold of the son which made the woman to run back in order to save her son.

It was in the process that the robbers were able to snatch her bag and the phone.

The shout for help from the woman attracted the youths of the area who started pursuing the robbers while distress call was also made to the police.

It was in the robbers bid to escape from the scene that the deceased and one other were shot by the robbers.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to State Criminal Investigation Departments for discreet investigation.

The CP also sent condolence message to the family of the deceased, and assured them that the command would do everything possible to apprehend the escaped members of the gang.

The post 28 years old man arrested for robbery, murder at Fadunsi Ijoko appeared first on Frontpageng.

The suspects are 32 years old Odukoya Ayomide and 32 years old Abiodun Oyenuga.

They were apprehended on the expressway on August 25, 2020 when the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Awa Ijebu, CSP Adewalehinmi Joseph, led a team on a routine patrol of the area.

The suspects who are on motorcycle quickly jumped down on sighting the policemen and took to their heels.

They were hotly chased and one of them, Odukoya Ayomide, was apprehended with a locally made cut to size double barrel gun while the second suspect escaped through the nearby bush.

The arrested suspect informed the police on interrogation that  his fleeing partner was the person who invited him from Ijebu Ode for robbery operation and that they were just going to carry out the operation when they were caught by the police.

The useful information obtained from the arrested suspect led the police to Shagamu where Abiodun Oyenuga, his fleeing partner, was arrested on August, 2020.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward A. Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the robbery suspects to Special Anti-Robbery Squads, SARS, for discreet investigation.

The CP therefore warned those who are criminally minded to leave the state as the command would make it too hot for them under his watch.

The post Ogun: Two robbery suspects arrested on their way to operation appeared first on Frontpageng.