Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested three members of a motorcycle-snatching syndicate terrorising the Owode-Egba space of Obafemi-Owode Native Authorities Space within the state.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a phone dialog with PUNCH On-line on Tuesday.
She pressured that the suspects had been apprehended following a reported assault on a resident of Ijemo Kukoyi village alongside the Shiun-Owode Expressway.
Our correspondent learnt that the sufferer, Rotimi Bajela, knowledgeable the police that the suspected robbers had ambushed him. The robbers reportedly shot at him, however the shot didn’t hurt him, prompting them to assault him with a machete.
Odutola recounted, “On 11 October 2024, a involved resident supplied worthwhile data that led the police to apprehend the suspects who attacked one Rotimi Bajela.
“The report indicated that 60-year-old Rotimi Bajela was leaving Ajura Township and driving in direction of Ijemo Kukoyi Village by way of Owode-Egba on his Boxer Bajaj motorbike, whose registration quantity isn’t but recognized.
“As he travelled alongside the Ajura/Olojo/Shiun street, three males emerged from the bushes and assaulted him with a gun and a machete. Through the assault, the assailants shot him; when the gun didn’t hurt or kill him, they resorted to hitting him with the machete on his head and neck, robbing him of his motorbike, cash, and an Itel cell phone.”
Bajela additionally recognized the suspected robbers as Adegboyega Sarafa, Soliu Bankole, and Sogo Idris, alias Agbara.
Armed with the id of the suspects, police operatives tracked and arrested the trio, recovering a regionally made gun and the machete used within the assault.
Odutola said, “When the police visited Bajela on the hospital throughout their investigation, he confirmed that he recognised the attackers and will establish them as Adegboyega Sarafa, 42; Soliu Bankole, 38; and Sogo Idris, alias Agbara, 46.
“All three suspects had been arrested on 14 October 2024, and the regionally made gun and machete used in the course of the assault had been recovered.”
She concluded that additional investigations into the matter have commenced.
PUNCH On-line had reported on 23 September that three suspected robbers terrorising the Ejirin neighborhood within the Ijebu-Ode Native Authorities Space of Ogun State had been arrested at their hideout in Lagos State.
(https://punchng.com/ogun-notorious-armed-robbers-nabbed-in-lagos/)
Odutola had knowledgeable our correspondent that their arrest adopted the apprehension of 1 member of the syndicate, who had gone to rob the Cele Ejirin neighborhood.
Odutola said that upon the arrest and interrogation of the primary suspect, recognized as Qudri Yusuf, he led police operatives to their hideout within the Idioro space of Mushin, Lagos State, the place two different members of the syndicate had been arrested