The Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested three suspects who have been involved in several bus robberies in the state.
A press release signed by SP Omololu Odutola, PPRO, Ogun State Command, reads:”Defeat met with three suspected gang of notorious bus robbers or as popularly called ‘one chance’, who have been spare heading a series of Bus robberies in Sagamu, Ijebu environs until their apprehension by SP Ibiyeye Bolaji Hakeem the Divisional Police Officer of Sakura”.
The statement revealed that earlier in June, a similar occurrence took place, which made SP Ibiyeye Bolaji Hakeem to use most of the victim’s account, to ambuscade, together with the cooperation of road transporters, succeeded in this arrest, but the victim’s narration of July bus robbery paid off.
The suspects modus operandi was to pick passengers at garages and after few minutes into the journey, the syndicates would demand for their passengers valuables, disposes them of their ATM cards, and order their victims to transfer money into an account from the victim’s account. They also make the victims swear to a fearful statue that they will not reveal their ordeal to anyone else they will die. Thereafter the victims are pushed out of the moving vehicle.
“That was how they played out in this case, where they collected the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand naira from Isaac Alabi and pushed her off a moving vehicle.
The three suspects have confessed to the crime and the vehicle used have also been recovered to the police station.
It is notable to state that the apprehended criminals, reside in Oje Beere area of Ibadan, Oyo State, but carryout their nefarious activities in Abeokuta until the long arms of law met with them on the 24th of July 2023”.
The PPRO informed that the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command, CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha (psc) has been briefed and he has commended the effort of the Divisional Police Officer, urging him to keep the tempo up, till bus robbers are flushed out from Ogun State.
He assured of the unflinching vigilance and alertness of his policemen. Concluding that the police is ever ready to unfasten and detach crime in Ogun State.
