Osun Police Bust Lagos Gang …Suspects Use Military Uniform, Fake Arms

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A Lagos-based gang of suspected highway robbers operating in military uniform has been smashed in Osun State by the police.

According to the police, six members of the gang operating along Ife-Ilesa Expressway have been held.

Osun State commissioner of police (CP), Mr Fimihan Adeoye, paraded the suspects at the command headquarters in Osogbo today.

He said that the suspects were arrested by his men with the aid of local vigilantes on Monday night at the scene of a robbery operation.

Two other suspected highway robbers who planted spikes on the roads to puncture vehicle tyres in order to rob motorists and passengers were also arrested.

Adeoye said that before their arrest, the two-man robbery gang had used carved wooden guns, covered with black cello tapes to rob their victims.

According to him, police investigations established that the suspects were all from Lagos, but came to operate in Osun and always returned to base.

He also announced the arrest of one Yekini Kareem, 62, who had been on police wanted list in the last two years.

He said Kareem, also known as Abija, lured a rice seller from Saki in Oyo to Osogbo, in May 2017, and engaged some criminals to dispossess him of his goods and money before killing him.

He revealed that the command had so far arrested five persons in connection with the case between the period of the incident and December 2018.

He also revealed that the prime suspect, recently arrested at his hideout in Lagos on Monday and other arrested criminal suspects, would be charged to court soon.

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