Ogun State police command at the weekend said it has arrested no fewer than 11 members of an armed robbery gang that has been terrorising the people of Abeokuta, the state capital in recent time.
A statement issued yesterday by the command’s Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the collaborative effort of the police and men of the state vigilance service led to the arrest of the 11 suspects, one of who was identified by their victims last Saturday.
Their arrest was even as another 26 suspected members of a secret cult group were arrested over the weekend across major cities and communities in Ijebu areas of the state.
Adejobi in the statement, said policemen at the Ibara Division led by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Oyewole Emmanuel, had arrested the 11 suspects late on Saturday at Itori Oke area in Abeokuta, following a distress call received by them.
The PPRO gave names of the suspect to include: Ebunoluwa Oyinbo, a female, while the other 10 male suspects are; Ishola Yusuf , Aremu Ismaila, Adebayo Adeola, Seun Daramola, Rasheed Ahmed, Adejare Oluwaseun, Rasaki Disu, Sunday Egbejinmi, Abiodun Soroyehun as well as Sodiq Ajayi.
Adejobi said one of the victims (name withheld) identified one of the suspects, Adebayo Adeola, to have been the one that robbed him in his house earlier on August 3, 2013 at about 4.00am.
He further said the state Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, has ordered that the suspects be thoroughly investigated while they are kept at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Eleweran, Abeokuta.
Giving assurance that the suspects would be charged to court after the investigation has been concluded, the police commissioner urged the people of the state to have trust in the police and share useful information to assist the police achieve its goal of a crime free state.
In a related development, National Mirror gathered that the arrest of the 26 suspected cultists was carried out by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of operations, Muhammad AbdulKadir, in a raid launched by the police at their hideout and black spots across Ijebuland.
The command’s PPRO, Adejobi confirmed the arrest, adding that the operation was part of the command’s war on cultism in the state. He said the cultists were part of those who have in recent time been involved in the killing of innocent people in the Ijebu axis of the state
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