The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation, and Safety Corps, known as So-Safe Corps, have apprehended a 25-year-old individual named Ayomide Ibrahim for burglary and theft.
Ibrahim was said to have been
arrested on Thursday, January 25, at the Baba Ode area of Iju in the
Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state during the routine patrol of the
security agency.
He was alleged to have told the
So-Safe Corps that he came from Abeokuta to join his accomplice in the area and
that he was a member of a robbery gang that specialised in stealing from
worship centres in the area.
Ibrahim equally allegedly
revealed that whatever they stole is sold at one Arena Shopping Complex in
Oshodi, Lagos State.
This was contained in a press
statement issued on Saturday from the Office of the State Commander of the
Corps, Commander Soji Ganzallo, through
the Office of the Director of Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Assistant
Commander Moruf Yusuf.
The statement partly reads, “On
25 January 2024, the officers of the Corps at Baba Ode Division, Iju, in Ado
Odo Ota Local Government, while on routine patrol apprehended Ayomide Ibrahim,
a 25-year-old man while stealing aluminium fittings.
“The suspect confessed to
having relocated from Abeokuta to join his accomplice at Baba Ode, Iju.
“He confessed during
preliminary interrogation that the exhibits were stolen from an uncompleted
building in Atan and that Biola Adebesin, who was previously arrested by the
Corps on 18th January is their gang leader and they specialise in burgling and
stealing from worship centres.
“The suspect revealed that any
church instruments stolen were sold at Arena Shopping Complex in Oshodi,
Lagos”.
Meanwhile, items recovered from
the suspect as exhibits were said to have been transferred to the Nigeria
Police Force, Onipanu Divisional Police Headquarters for further investigation
and likely prosecution.
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