Operatives of Ogun state Police Command have arrested four notorious armed robbery suspects, who specialised in snatching motorcycle from owners at gun point.
The arrest was contained in a press statement made available to Blueprint, Wednesday, by the command’s spokesperson SP Abimbola Oyeyemi in Abeokuta.
The suspects, according to Oyeyemi includes Muhammad Adamu, Okacha Alidu, Yusuf Mohammed and Muniru Sunmaila.
Oyeyemi further stated that they were arrested following a distress call received at Ajuwon police divisional headquarters that the suspects were operating and had attacked one Sunday Doile at Onibudo area of Akute and snatched his Bajaj motorcycle on gun point.
“Upon the distress call, the DPO Ajuwon division, SP Andrew Akinseye, quickly mobilized his patrol team and moved to the scene.
“On sighting the policemen, the hoodlums who are about six in number took to their heels in different directions, while one of them escaped with the snatched motorcycle. Others were hotly chased, and four amongst them were apprehended.
“On interrogation, they confessed been the syndicate responsible for various cases of motorcycle snatching in Ajuwon and its environs.
“They confessed further that their mode of operation is to use a motorcycle belonging to one of them to cross the one they want to snatch, and they will show their gun to the victim and ordered him to surrender his motorcycle.
“According to them, any of their victims who struggle with them will be hit on the head with an iron rod, and the motorcycle will be taken away while the owner is unconscious. They claimed to have killed one of their victims in the process”, the statement reads.
To locally made pistols, one iron rod, one cutlass, one live cartridge, three expended cartridges and assorted Criminal charms were recovered from them.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation Departments for discreet investigation.
He also directed that the escaped members of the gang must be hunted for wherever they might be.
