4 Bandits Arrested For Hijacking Trailer Load Of Flour
CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
Police operatives from Ogun State Command have arrested four suspected armed robbers for hijacking a trailer load of Golden Penny flour worth millions of Naira along Shagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway, Ogun State.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspects, who carted away the items on April 16 and were arrested on May 5, 2021.
This was disclosed by the State Police Command’s Public Relation officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
He identified the suspects as Eze Anthony Sopruchukwu, Eze Chijoke Edeh, Olalekan Ayodele Muritala and Samuel Johnson.
DSP Oyeyemi said they were apprehended following a report lodged at Ikenne Divisional Headquarters that a trailer, with registration number ANG 57 LG, loaded with 600 bags of Golden Penny flour and driven by one Ahmed Tiamiyu, was hijacked along the expressway.
He explained that the trailer driver and his motor boy were taken to the bush, where their hands were tied to their backs and their mouths sealed with tape, before taking away the truck and the flours.
“The DSP Ade Akiti led squad, swung into action and embarked on technical and intelligence based investigation.“Their efforts paid off, when one of the suspects was traced to Ikorodu in Lagos State and promptly arrested.“His arrest led to the arrest of three others, while 175 bags of Golden Penny flours were recovered from the warehouse of the gang leader, Eze Anthony,” the Police spokesman stated.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun, was said to have directed that the case be transferred to Special Enquiry Bureau at State Headquarters Eleweran for discreet investigation.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, who commended the painstaking investigation done by the team, has ordered that the remaining members of the gang must be hunted for and brought to book.
