OGUN POLICE ARREST FOUR HIGHWAY ARMED ROBBERS

He said the  arrest of the robbery suspects followed a distress call by members of the public that the hoodlums have blocked the highway and dispossessing people of their belongings, adding that the bandits  have succeeded in snatching a Lexus RX 330 jeep with Reg.No KSF 509 CV from one their victims.

‘Upon the distress call, the Commissioner of Police Ahmed Iliyasu  ordered the Officer in-Charge of FSARS DSP Uba Adams to go after the hoodlums and bring them to justice’, the police spokesman said.

He added that, in compliance with the commissioner’s order, the FSARS Operatives moved swiftly to the scene, but on sighting the Policemen, the robbers opened fire on them while the Operatives also engaged them in a gun duel.

‘At the end of the encounter, four members of the gang namely; Israel Adams ‘m’, Opeyemi Okegbenro ‘m’, Ali Chibike ‘m’, Patrick Nwandagba ‘m’ were arrested while others escaped through the nearby bush”, he said.

Oyeyemi also added that the same gang had earlier on the same day attacked and shot one policeman Oluwatobi Iwata attached to PMF17 in Ondo State and one Samuel Olatunji who later died on his way to the hospital.

“Recovered from them were one Pump Action Gun, Two Locally made Double barreled Pistol, Four Live Cartridges, the Snatched Lexus RX330 Jeep with Reg.No KSF 509 CV’, he said, adding that efforts are on to apprehend the fleeing members of the gang.