Operatives of Ogun State Police Command on Monday 24th of October 2022, arrested four notorious armed robbery suspects, who specialized in snatching motorcycles from owners at gunpoint.
The suspects identified as Muhammad Adamu, aged 20, Okacha Alidu, aged 22, Yusuf Mohammed aged 28 and Muniru Sunmaila aged 20 were arrested following a distress call received at Ajuwon Police Divisional Headquarters at about 3 a.m, that the suspects were carrying out a robbery operation.
NigeriaCrime.com learned that the suspects had attacked one Sunday Doile in Onibudo area of Akute and snatched his Bajaj motorcycle at gunpoint.
Based on the distress call, the DPO Ajuwon division, SP Andrew Akinseye, quickly mobilised his patrol team and moved to the scene.
On sighting the policemen, the hoodlums who are about six in number ran in different directions, while one of them escaped with the snatched motorcycle. Others were hotly chased, and four amongst them were apprehended.
Confirming the suspect’s arrest SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command said during interrogation, they confessed been the syndicate responsible for various cases of motorcycle snatching in Ajuwon and its environs.
“They also confessed that their mode of operation is to use a motorcycle belonging to one of them to cross the one they want to snatch, and they will show their gun to the victim and order him to surrender his motorcycle.”
According to them, any of their victims who struggle with them will be hit on the head with an iron rod, and the motorcycle will be taken away while the owner is unconscious. They claimed to have killed one of their victims in the process.
Recovered from them are; two locally made pistols, one iron rod, one cutlass, one live cartridge, three expended cartridges and assorted Criminal charms.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation Departments for discreet investigation. He also directed that the escaped members of the gang must be hunted wherever they might be