LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)-Osun State Police Command have paraded six suspects for alleged robbery and snatching of unregistered vehicles in Osun State.
Public Relations officer of the command, SP Yemisi Opalola while briefing journalists at the State Command said, “The complainant reported at Gbongan Division on 15 June, that, he (Driver) picked four passengers from Opic park, Ogun State heading to Abuja with unregistered Mercedez Benz car.
“On getting to a point around Ikire jurisdiction, the said passengers forced him to stop and started shooting to scare him, while struggling with them, he was stabbed with a knife at his left hand, pushed out of the vehicle and suspects went away with the said 4matic Benz car”.
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“He (Driver) further stressed that he can identify the suspects if seen. Immediately after the Police received the report, a team of policemen stop and search along Ibadan/Ile-Ife expressway, Gbongan was alerted, but when the suspects sighted the policemen, they abandoned the said car and took to their heels and escaped to the bush.
“Police did not rest on his oars; combed the bush where two of the suspects were arrested. Efforts put in place by Anti-Kidnapping Squad yielded more results whereby four other suspects were arrested at Lagos State” PPRO stated.
Ibrahim Yusuf, the leader of the gang, narrating how they hijacked the car, said, “The car had a flat tyre when we were trying to escape and return to Lagos. We noticed that the car was giving us issues after we fixed the flat tyre.
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“We ran into a town (Gbongan), trying to look for a mechanic but we didn’t find any. The victim who we injured found us when we were about to leave the mechanic place, and immediately raised the alarm when he saw us.
“Two of us escaped in one direction while the other two escaped in another direction. We spent some time in the bush before coming out. We were later arrested by police officers,” he said.
SP Opalola added that Investigation is still ongoing, and assured the general public that timing, credible and useful information is very important at serving you better.