Police Smash Pestle-Wielding Gang of Motorbike Robbers in Ogun

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If it has been a Nollywood Yoruba movie, the dramatis personae would have been called Agbodorogun (the man who goes to war with a pestle or mortal)

But Abraham Lucky who was arrested for using pestle to snatch motorbikes is not an actor.

According to the police, Lucky’s 4-man gang had snatched more than 10 motorbikes before they became unlucky.

Police smashed the gang operating in Agbara and its environs after a report lodged at Agbara Divisional Headquarters by one Suuru Nofiyonbin on February 20.

A statement from Ogun State police spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, says, “Nofiyonbin told the police that at about 5:30am on that day, while he was riding his unregistered Bajaj motorcycle, he picked a man who pretended to be a passenger, from OPIC Estate in Agbara, heading to Igere. On their way going, the said passenger brought out a pestle from his bag and hit him in the head, thereby inflicting serious head injury on him before dispossessing him of his motorbike.

“On the strength of the report, the DPO Agbara Division, CSP Adegbite Omotayo quickly led his Anti-Robbery team to the scene, combed the entire area in collaboration with the vigilante service of Ogun State and succeeded in apprehending the suspect who was later identified as Abraham Lucky.

“The motorcycle and the pestle were subsequently recovered from him.

“On interrogation, he confessed to being responsible for a series of motorcycles snatching in the area.  He also named the duo of Emeka Ekenle, 28, and Oluwaseun Adekoya, 25, as his gang members as well as one Monday Nzkube as their receiver.

“Detectives quickly accompanied him to the residence of his mentioned accomplices and got them arrested.

“They have all confessed to the commission of the crime. They admitted having snatched more than 10 motorcycles in Agbara and its environs.”

Oyeyemi told NewsmakersNG that the Commissioner of Police (CP) Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for discreet investigation.

The CP further reiterated the commitment of his men not to rest on their oars until the state is rid of crime and criminality.  

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