Yes, We’re Armed Robbers – Suspects Confess To Police

MICHAEL AKINOLA

Two armed robbery suspects arrested on their way to an operation has confessed to the Police that they were actually armed robbers and on their way to rob before they were apprehended.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspects, Odukoya Ayomide, 32 and Abiodun Oyenuga, 32, went to rob along Awe Ijebu-Ijebu Ode expressway in Ogun State.

However, the Divisional Police Officer, Awe Ijebu, CSP Adewalehinmi Joseph, led a team on a routine patrol of the area.

The suspects, who were on a motorcycle, quickly jumped down on sighting the Policemen and took to their heels.

They were given a hot chase and one of them, Odukoya Ayomide, was apprehended with a locally made cut to size double barrel gun while the second suspect escaped through the nearby bush.

The arrested suspect informed the Police on interrogation that his fleeing partner was the person who invited him from Ijebu Ode for the robbery operation and that they were just going to carry out the operation when they were caught.

The useful information obtained from the arrested suspect led the Police to Shagamu, where Abiodun Oyenuga, his fleeing partner, was arrested.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward A. Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the robbery suspects to Special Anti-Robbery Squads, SARS, for discreet investigation.

The CP therefore, warned those with criminal minds to leave the State as the Command will make it too hot for them under his watch.

The suspects risk several years of imprisonment if they are tried and found guilty for the alleged offence before Court.