Ogun Command Arrests Three Armed Robbery Syndicate, One Escape

By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA

The quick intervention of men of the Ogun State Police Command at Idanyin community, Agbara led to the arrest of three members of an armed robbery syndicate on May 24th, 2020.

The armed robbers were apprehended at the community while raiding house to house, dispossessing their victims of belongings and inflicting various degrees of injury on them.

In a statement made available to Daily Dispatch by state command, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed that the suspects were arrested following a distress call received by the DPO Agbara division on that day.

Oyeyemi narrated that upon the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Agbara division, SP Saleh Dahiru quickly led his anti robbery team to the scene and met the robbers attacking the residences of one Barrister Kamieyefa Omosivwe and that of Oluyemi Olajide.

“On sighting the police, the robbers launch an attack on them, but they were over powered and three members of the gang were eventually arrested while one of them escaped.

“The arrested members are: Toheed Salami, Ibrahim Ismaila and Michael Abiodun. Recovered from them are two locally made short guns. The injured victim has been taken to the hospital for medical attention,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police (CP) Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to special anti robbery squads SARS for discreet investigation.