The Ogun State-Owned Safety Outfit, So-Protected Corps, Agbara Area Command, has arrested two suspected armed robbers.
The suspects are stated to be members of a faceless robbery syndicate terrorizing Agbara axis in Ogun State.
The State Commander of the company, Commander Soji Ganzallo, had directed that “the miscreants disrupting the peace of Atan and its environs” needs to be hunted and delivered to book within two months.
At about 10:47pm on Saturday, September 3, the patrol crew of the So-Protected Corps apprehended two of the robbery suspects.
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The corps spokesman, Moruf Yusuf, recognized the suspects as Isaac Bankole, who resides behind Yah Lateef Area, Onibuku and Agboola Ahmed, a resident of Orile-Gboko, Lusada, in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government.
In accordance with Yusuf, the duo have been arrested whereas strategizing to rob Sokenu neighborhood in Atan.
Yusuf defined: “In preparation for the deliberate lethal robbery assault, the culprits robbed an Okada rider of his Bajaj motorcycle and instructed him at gunpoint that he could be with them all through their operation for simple movement from one place to the other.”
He stated that the robbery syndicate confessed after their arrest, with none type of torture.
He stated: “They confessed to the crime and added that their membership of Eiye confraternity gave them the effrontery to strike anytime with out the worry of any regulation enforcement agencies.”
Objects recovered from the suspects are: a Bajaj motorcycle marked AYE 009 VW; one cut-to-size locally made pistol, two life cartridges, one ATM Card, one small Itel cellphone, one Tecno Spark 7 and various varieties of charms.
Yusuf added that the 2 suspects, their victim and the reveals discovered on them have been transferred to the Nigeria police in Atan division for additional investigation and certain prosecution.