A community in Iyana
-Iyesi in Ado/Odo-Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State were startled when the news came to them that their night
guard who was given the position to secure them and their property had been
arrested for robbery.
Some individuals who
spoke with the press said their initial reaction about news was complacent,
because they thought it was all a rumor, but the it became reality when the
forty-eight year-old night guard, Sunday Uche was paraded by the state Police
Command for robbery.
Uche was arrested by the police with four others for robbing
some houses in Iyana Iyesi community in the Council.
The embattled night guard who until the time of arrest was a
security guard employed to secure the community at night reportedly led the
robbers to the community and made away with a Sports Utility Vehicle.
Uche {The night guard} was paraded alongside Aliu Muhammad,
Shakiru Ojulari, Ademola Akiniyi and Benedict Odeh at the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad office, Magbon, Abeokuta.
The Police PRO in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi who paraded the
suspects, said one of the robbers was arrested in Lafenwa, Abeokuta following a
tip off that led men of the SARS, to the
arrest of the others including the night guard.
CONFESSION BY SUSPECTS
The night guard, Uche said,
“my friends lured me into this,
they came to tell me they have a car they want to sell , they asked me to lead
them and that they have customers who will buy the car. “We went into the
estate and saw a car which we took, while driving the car, we noticed it was
not functioning well, so we left it there. “I am the security man of that
place, I told them I won’t follow them to my street, so they went there to rob.
“I received a call that armed
robbers have invaded the community, I told the callers that I am also on the
street. I own a gun; I gave it to them for the operation.” Another suspect,
Muhammad, a bricklayer said he joined the gang after returning from a remand centre.
“When I was about leaving ATM, I met a friend who stays in my area, he told me
he has people who need cars and he would connect me with them.
“After I left, he started
calling me on phone. So, I told him I saw a car around where I work, he told me
to call him when I’m through with the car. “We robbed the woman at Itele road
and he told me to come to Abeokuta with the car and it was a Lafenwa that
police arrested.”
THE POLICE REACTION
The Police Public Relations
Officer in the state DSP Muyiwa Adejobi
while parading the suspects at the SARS office, Magbon, Abeokuta disclosed that
they were arrested in Lafenwa in Abeokuta following a tip off., Adejobi said, the command later discovered
that a night guard that was employed by the people in Itele was among the
robbers that were arrested.,
The PPRO said, while the robbery was going on, the people in the
community called the night guard to rescue them and he assured them that things
were under control., According to
Adejobi, the police recovered one Rav 4 Jeep registration number Lagos JJJ 559
BF, two locally made double barrel guns, six live cartridges, eleven phones and
assorted charms., * He said, “Men of Special anti-Robbery Squad of the state
Police Command led by Muhammad Tijani arrested the suspects following a tip
off.,
“The suspects have confessed to the crime and would soon be charged to
court., * “The Police have found out that the night guard was the leader of the
gang and had confessed to the crime. The Police also learnt that while the
robbery operation was going on the people of the area called him but he said
they should not be worried whereas he was actually the leader of the gang that
was robbing them., “The suspects would be charged to court after the completion
of the investigation”.
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