Four able bodied robbery suspects
have been paraded by the oyo state police command Headquarters, Eleyele Ibadan, these
robbers were in possession of women’s underwear and other personal effects being
displayed as part of items allegedly stolen from a shop at sango area of Ibadan .
The robbers had burgled the shop successfully and allegedly stolen
the items, but they ran out of luck as vigilant policemen, through much
investigation, traced them to their hideout at Apete area in Ido Local
Government Area of the state.
The suspects whose names were given
as Godbless Oluku, 26, Alaka Babatunde, 23, Benjamin Ocran Segun 18, and Jamiu
Alabi, 38, up to the time they were being paraded alongside other suspects
could still not believe how possible they were out after leaving the scene.
As they were sad that they would
likely spend some time behind bars if found guilty of the offense, the owner of
the burgled shop was full of thanks to the state police command led by the Mr. Adeleye
Oyebade Commissioner of Police, for their hard work which led to arrest of the
suspects and recovery of her wares which had been carted away by the hoodlums.
While speaking with Vanguard after
the parade of the suspects, Bolanle Ogunmiye said after the end of sales on
Thursday, she closed her shop and left for her house. But, unknown to her, the
hoodlums had gained access to her shop and parked her wares.
She said, “the burglars forced
themselves into my shop between Thursday and Friday, but I was not aware until
Saturday, When I got to my shop on they had emptied it. With my estimate, they
stole goods worth well over N150,000. Among the items they stole include a
point of sale (POS) machine, cosmetics, women’s underwears and many other
things.”
Ogunmiye thanked the police command
for wiping her tears away by recovering all the items, adding that if not for
the vigilance of the police, the burglars would have succeeded in stealing the
items, wrecking her life and leaving indelible scars on her. Only God can tell
if she could have recovered from the loss she would incur.
One of the suspects who refused to
talk and stubbornly refused to mention his name confessed, “we went to rob on
Friday and later burgled the shop at Sango. We were caught by men of Oodua
People’s Congress who later handed us over to the police”.
He also confessed being an ex-convict
for stealing and that he found it extremely difficult to quit stealing after
serving a six month jail term because there was nothing he could do.
According to him, the items include
50 pairs of assorted shoes, 15 pairs of female pants, 8 wristwatches, 6
necklaces, one big iron cutter, two POS credit card machines and 41 unused
Etisalat sim cards.
Among the thirteen suspects paraded
include alleged robbery syndicate from whom dangerous weapons were recovered. The
state police boss explained that the “command’s commitment to visibility
policing through intensive patrol and stop and search manifested in the arrest
recently of a gang of armed robbers who until their arrest were responsible for
the spate of robbery attacks in Ibadan metropolis and its environs. The robbery
syndicate had planned to carry out other robbery operations in some parts of
the state when an anti crime team of the Alakia/Adenubi Division on routine
patrol of the town intercepted the gang thereby foiling other robbery attacks
they intended to carry out”. He noted that four suspects who allegedly
specialized in using motorcycles to rob victims were arrested in the process
and items found on them include a locally-made pistol, two live cartridges and
assorted criminal charms.
The names of the suspects,
according to him, are Olayinka Olamide, 24, Kamoru Opeyemi, 23, Michael Emeka, 24
and Olaniyi Oyeniyi, 25.
Dangerous weapons were allegedly
recovered from them. While assuring that all the suspects would be charged to
court, the CP appreciated the support of members of the public and enjoined
them to continue to support the police in their resolve to fight criminality in
the state.
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