FOUR alleged armed robbers have been detained by state police command officers. They are said to specialize in holding motorcycle owners at gunpoint while stealing their motorbikes.
Muhammad Adamu, 20, Okacha Alidu, 22, Yusuf Mohammed, 28, and Muniru Sunmaila, 20, were detained after the Ajuwon Police Divisional Headquarters received a distress call.
This was revealed today by the state’s police public relations officer SP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
Oyeyemi revealed that the suspects attacked a Sunday Doile in the Onibudo neighborhood of Akute and took his Bajaj motorcycle at gunpoint at around 3 a.m. on Monday.
He said, “Upon the distress call, the DPO Ajuwon division, SP Andrew Akinseye, quickly mobilised his patrol team and moved to the scene.
“On sighting the policemen, the hoodlums, who were about six in number, took to their heels in different directions, while one of them escaped with the snatched motorcycle. Others were hotly chased, and four amongst them were apprehended.
“On interrogation, they confessed to being the syndicate responsible for various cases of motorcycle snatching in Ajuwon and its environs.
“They confessed further that their mode of operation is to use a motorcycle belonging to one of them to cross the one they want to snatch, and they will show their gun to the victim and order him to surrender his motorcycle.
“According to them, any of their victims who struggle with them will be hit on the head with an iron rod, and the motorcycle will be taken away while the owner is unconscious. They claimed to have killed one of their victims in the process.
“Recovered from them are: two locally made pistols, one iron rod, one cutlass, one live cartridge, three expended cartridges and assorted criminal charms.”
The PPRO, however, said the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation.
He added, “The CP has also directed that the escaped members of the gang must be hunted wherever they might be.”
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