The Ogun state police command have apprehended a three-man robbery gang in Atan-Ota area of Ado-Odo Ota Local Government area of the State. The suspects specialised in luring unsuspecting passengers into a vehicle only to later dispossess them of their valuables in an isolated area on their way.
The suspects, which include Aisu Anago(30), Muritala Alubarika(42) and Noah Joel (34), were arrested last February 28 at Atan motor park following a tip-off by one Mrs Taye Olotu, who had earlier being their victim.
Explaining in her report to a police patrol team led by a Divisional Police Officer, Atan-Ota Division, a Superintendent of Police, Abiodun Salau, she noted that she boarded a vehicle going to Idiroko earlier in February, but the criminals robbed her half-way, pushing her out of the vehicle afterwards.
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She was said to have seen the suspects at the same park calling on passengers, and promptly informed the police about it.
Confirming the development, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said patrol team quickly followed the woman to the motor park, met the suspects and arrested three of them.
Abimbola, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), added that a cutlass and rope which they often use for their operations, were found on the suspects.
Speaking further, the police spokesman said, “They have made confessional statements that their mode of operation is for one of them to act as a driver of the car, while the two others will pretend to be passengers already in the car and they will sit in such a away that will ensure their victim is sandwiched between them.
“Once they got to an isolated area, one of them will bring out the cutlass and the other one will use the rope to tie the hands of the victim to make it easy for them to search and dispossess such person of whatever valuables with him or her.
“They admitted been the gang that robbed the complainant earlier in the month, of the sum of N100, 000.”
He explained that the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that the suspects should be transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for discreet investigation.
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