Anthony Iwuoma
Operatives of the Ogun Stste Police Command have decimated two suspected bandits at Bere forest in Onigaari area along Lagos-Ibadan Express way.
The state police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, who made this disclosure added that the police killed the bandits during a gun battle when they encountered the suspects during a search for kidnappers, terrorising the area.
He said: “In furtherance to bush combing operation in search of kidnappers terrorising different parts of Ogun State, men of Ogun State Police Command in the early hours of Saturday 21st of August 2021, engaged suspected kidnappers in gun duel at Bere forest in Onigaari area along Lagos-Ibadan Express way.”
The police spokesman said the command acted on an earlier intelligence some hoodlums carrying AK47 rifles were seen in the forest and probably waiting for the appropriate time to strike.
He added that the police decided to search the forest and that “while the combing was going on, the hoodlums (bandits) on sighting the policemen, opened fire on them, and gun battle ensued between them.
“At the end of the encounter, one of the bandits was shot dead on the spot, while others escaped with varying degrees of gunshot injuries.
“Searching the forest further, one of the bandits with bullets wound was arrested in the bush but gave up the ghost few minutes after,” Oyeyemi said, adding that the police recovered two AK 47 rifles with breech numbers 1983NF1040 and 1987-3-CA-1212 with five rounds of ammunition and sachets of tramadol and assorted charms from the bandits.
