FOUR ARRESTED IN OGUN STATE OVER ROBBERY ALLEGATION

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement released on Monday confirmed the arrest of three brothers and one other for allegedly carrying out series of robbery operations in the Ijebu-Ode area of the state.

The suspects, Hammed Jagbojagbo, Idris Jagbojagbo, Tobi Jagbojagbo and Tosin Ogundeko, were arrested following a distress call received at Igbeba divisional headquarters.

Oyeyemi said policemen were informed that armed robbers had invaded the shop of a premier lotto agent at the Odi-Olowo area of Ijebu-Ode and robbed the agent of N90,000.

Oyeyemi said, “the robbers also snatched a bajaj motorcycle belonging to one Clement Conleth.

Upon the distress call, the DPO Igbeba division, CSP Musiliu Doga, quickly led his patrol team to the scene, gave the robbers a hot chase and succeeded in arresting one of them by name Tosin Ogundeko from whom the Bajaj motorcycle was recovered.

“The arrested Tosin Ogundeko subsequently led detectives to their hideout in Epe, Lagos State, where the remaining three were apprehended; while one of them, simply identified as Tosin, a.k.a. socket, escaped.”.

He added that the suspects confessed further that they are all based in Epe but chose Ijebu-Ode as their area of operation, one cut-to-size locally made gun and one Bajaj motorcycle were recovered from the suspects.