A 33-year-old suspected armed robber, Akeem Owonikoko, has alleged that a police inspector, identified simply as Ola, supplied him and other gang members with guns, the Ogun State Police Command said on Sunday.
According to a statement by the Police Public
Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, Owonikoko was arrested along
Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode Expressway during a sting operation led by the Area Commander
for Ijebu Ode, ACP Omosanyi Adeniyi.
The suspect, said to have been terrorising
residents of the Obalende area in Ijebu Ode, was sighted around 12:30 am in a
Toyota Camry around Ososa Ijebu driving towards Ijebu-Ode.
On sighting the police team, the suspect and
other members of his gang reportedly diverted their car away from the
expressway, fleeing into the bush and later abandoning the car.
Owonikoko who allegedly dressed in disguise
as a member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria was thereafter arrested during a
search of the area.
Searching the bags abandoned in the vehicle,
the police said items recovered from the bags included 32 expended cartridges,
78 live cartridges and a locally fabricated short gun.
Others allegedly found in his residence when
searched were a magnum pump action rifle, a double-barrel shotgun, one locally
fabricated double-barrel pistol, a stunt pistol choker, an unregistered silver
Toyota Camry, a green Toyota Sienna Bus (KNN 58 TD - OGUN), a black beret with
the insigma of Aiye Confraternity, phones, and hard drugs, among others.
Similarly, one Sunday Dosunmu, 53, who was
recently released from prison, was said to have been rearrested on Saturday
around Leme, Abeokuta, while attempting to steal a car with his specially made
fabricated key.
The Divisional Police Officer of Kemta,
Abeokuta, CSP Adeniyi Adekunle, was said to have arrested Dosunmu on September
17, 2022, in the Olorunsogo area of Abeokuta while the suspect was trying to
steal a car from a park along with his syndicate and was thereafter sent to
jail.
The suspect was said to have been caught
again by youths in that area, using fabricated master keys to unlock some cars
within that area.
People who saw him were said to have raised
the alarm, though he was said to have taken to his heels but the youths of the
area caught up with him and handed him over to the police.
Two fabricated master keys were said to have
been found in his possession, which were the instruments he was reportedly
using to unlock cars and drive them away.
While lauding his officers for the crackdown
on criminal elements in society, the Commissioner of Police in the state, CP
Abiodun Alamutu, disclosed that the suspects would soon be in court to answer
for their misdemeanours
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