FAKE TRADITIONAL RULER ARRESTED OVER TRANS-BORDER ROBBERY, KIDNAPPING
He gave identities of other gang members as Olalekan Olawale(27),Danladi Isah(25),Yetunde Adeosun, Tobi Adeosun, Adewale Quaheeb, Oluwatosin Abayomi and Abel Womiloju, adding that nine cars were recovered from the gang.
The Commissioner added further that the suspects confessed that the snatched car belonging to the police officer has been taken to one of their gang members at Iseyin in Oyo State,stating that, the fake traditional ruler was arrested with customized plate number bearing “JAGUNMOLU’
‘Gentle men of the press, this is a major breakthrough in our crime fighting efforts across Ogun State. The syndicate being paraded here today have been responsible for series of armed robbery and kidnapping across various States of the Federation’, the Commissioner emphasised.
He said, the gang decided to shift their operational base to Ogun State, but before they fully settle down for their nefarious activities, the intelligence arm of the Command got wind of their movement and they met their waterloo.
‘The gang started their operation with snatching of motorcycle which they did to test the veracity of security architecture of the State. When the report came to my notice, I directed the Officer in charge FSARS Sp Uba Adams to go after the culprits with the view of bringing them to book’.
The police boss said, in compliance with his directive, the anti-robbery operatives through technical intelligence driven investigation tracked down and apprehended one Olalekan Olawale who on interrogation revealed that the snatched motorcycle has been sold to somebody at Ilara in Imeko Afon local government area of the State.
The Commissioner said, two of the arrested suspects; Danladi Isah and Ismaila Adeosun were involved in an armed robbery operation in 2013, who were arrested by the Federal Anti-Robbery Squad,FSARS, arraigned in court and jailed for five years and came out of prison in March 2018.
‘The pump action gun they used then for their operation was found in Tobi Adeosun custody as their amourer. On further interrogation, the duo of Danladi Isah and Olalekan Olawale informed the operatives that all the cars they robbed here in Nigeria were sold to one “Papa’’ in Republic of Benin’.
‘On further investigation, it was discovered that one of their sponsors and receiver resides in Abuja following which our men moved to Abuja, tracked and arrested the said sponsor by name Endurance Odiawa who has narrated his role in conveying and disposal of snatched exotic cars from Southern part of the Country to Abuja’.
He disclosed that exhibits recovered from the gang include; nine exotic cars,two AK47 rifles with fifty rounds of ammunition,four locally made pistols with twenty-one live cartridges and one pump action gun with twelve live cartdriges
