*Mr. Kenneth Ebrimson, Police Commissioner, Ogun State responding to journalists
Ogun State Police Command said they have arrested three members of an armed robbery syndicate who engaged them in a gun battle. The robbers are Toheed Salami, Ibrahim Ismaila and Michael Abiodun. The police cut them red-handed at the scene of the crime on Sunday. In a bid to escape, they engaged the police but they robbers ran out of luck, which led to their eventual arrest.
Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Ogun State in a statement said the suspects were arrested following a distress call that armed robbers invaded the Idanyin community in Agbara, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state. According to him, “when the police got a hint that the suspected robbers were raiding houses, dispossessing the residents of their belongings and inflicting injuries on them, the Divisional Police Officer, Agbara, SP Saleh Dahiru, led his anti-robbery team to the scene and met the robbers attacking one Kamieyefa Omosivwe and Oluyemi Olajide.”
He said that on sighting the police, the robbers launched an attack, but they were overpowered, and three members of the gang were eventually arrested, while one escaped. Recovered from them were two locally made short guns while the injured victims were taken to hospital for treatment.
