Etim Effiong
Police in Ogun have arrested three suspected highway robbers at Alapako area in Obafemi/Owode Local Government Area of the state.
Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement in Abeokuta that the suspected highway robbers were arrested on Friday last week.
The PPRO said, “The suspects, Uzefa Idris, Adamu Yakubu, and Ayuba Buhari, were arrested following a distress call received by the Divisional Police Officer at Owode Egba Division that a Mazda bus has been forcefully stopped on the highway by a gang of armed robbers and the occupants were being dispossessed of their belongings.
“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 of the gang members were apprehended.
“The two victims, Oluwakemi Oyegade, who was dispossessed of N545,000 and one itel phone as well as the driver Zacheaus Olaniyi were rescued and taken to the station.
“The 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 a machete before dispossessing them of their valuables.”
Oyeyemi added that items recovered from the arrested hoodlums included N99,700 and one itel phone.
The State Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Special Anti-Robbery Squad for discreet investigation and prosecution.