*as police arrest nine members
The leader of the gang, Sanni
Mohammed was discovered to have sustained bullet wounds after the smoke from
the police and robbers guns had settled. Six of his men were arrested, while he
was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Items recovered from the hoodlums
are one double barrel with 10 expended cartridges and some weeds suspected to
be Indian hemp.
Police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide,
said that the bandits, numbering about nine, were arrested from different parts
of the state.
According
to Braide, the first sets of robbers were arrested on August, 10, 2013 by Policemen attached to Okokomaiko Division.
A team of anti-robbery policemen
responded to a distress call at F.O.A primary school, along Mile 2-Badagry
road, that a gang of robbers were operating.
As the policemen approached, the
robbers were said to have sighted them and immediately opened fire.
Six of the robbers, namely; Rafiu
Abdulahi, Sunday Abiodun, Musa Audu, Yusuf Mustapha, and Igamoye Ikechukwu
all of no fixed address were arrested.
The second set of suspects were
arrested on August, 11, 2013by
policemen attached to Abattoir
Division. They too had responded to distress call at Shina Peter road, Fagba
and arrested one Fagbohun Olaoluwa of No. 25 Adesunde Street, Agbado, Ogun
State. The police recovered two locally made pistols and one live cartridge
from Olaoluwa. The case is also under investigation at the State Criminal
Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba.
Similarly on August, 11, 2013, two armed robbers, Ibrahim Ramon and Usman Mustapha were
almost lynched alive by angry mob.
The mob was said to have inflicted
injuries on them at No. 10 Wosilat Aina Street, Orile.
The suspects, with others at large
had robbed residents of their cash and other valuables at the aforementioned
address.
The hoodlums have been admitted in a
nearby Hospital for medical attention due to the severity of the injuries. 
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