Joy Anyim
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a member of an armed robbery gang, Alo Monday, and recovered a Toyota Camry car snatched at gun point.
The suspect, an indigene of Ebonyi State, is said to be a member of a notorious syndicate that attacked motorists along Shagamu-Ikene Road on November 20.
It was learnt that police operatives from the Shagamu Police Division got a distress call on the activities of the robbers and mobilised to the scene.
Speaking on the arrest of the suspect, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), said: “ Following the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Okiki Agunbiade, a Superintendent of Police (SP), mobilised his patrol team and moved to the scene.
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“On sighting the policemen, the robbers quickly jumped into an already snatched unregistered Toyota Camry also known as ‘Muscle’ and started driving towards Lagos-Shagamu interchange. They were hotly chased by the policemen consequent upon which they abandoned the car and ran into the bush.
“The entire area was cordoned off by the policemen who combed the bush in search of the hoodlums. The effort paid off when one of the robbers Alo Monday was apprehended with a sledge hammer which he used to hit the owner of the car on the head before snatching the vehicle.
“The combing exercise drew the attention of youths and commercial motorcyclists in the area who descended heavily on the suspect and beat him to stupor. He was smuggled out of the place by the police who took him to the hospital for treatment.
“The owner of snatched car who sustained head injury inflicted on him with the sledge hammer was also taken to the hospital by the police. The Commissioner of Police (CP), Edward Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), for discreet investigation.”
He said the police boss has commended the quick response of his men to distress call, and directed that the fleeing members of the gang be hunted for and brought to justice within the shortest possible period.