The robbery was said to have been carried out on Saturday night at Sagamu, Ogun State. They were said to have attacked and robbed a trailer loaded with vehicle spare parts.
It was gathered that the men alleged to be involved in the robbery, were gallant policemen. Owoseni was said to have been so angry that he is personally handling the investigation. Already, three civilians and a policeman, identified as Victor, had been arrested in connection with the incident.
The occupants of the trailer, a driver and conductor, later alerted their company that they had been robbed. The robbers, who didn’t know that the trailer had a tracker, were trailed to Okokomaiko. When the owner of the trailer owners alerted the Officer in Charge of FSARS (OC FSARS), Ikeja, he was unaware that his men were the robbers.
The leader of the FSARS for the robbery is said to be one Inspector Durojaiye. Duroijaye and two other members of the team escaped, while Victor is being detained in FSARS cell in Ikeja. Victor was arrested after a gun duel with policemen attached to Okokomaiko police station.
A police source said: “The incident happened on Saturday night. Inspector Durojaiye is the leader of the team. The team is called ‘striking team.’ They all came from State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, three months ago to join FSARS, Ikeja.
The team was on night duty that fateful Saturday. “They went to Sagamu and hijacked 20ft container, loaded with vehicle spare parts. They tied the driver and conductor, put them inside their Lexus Jeep. They diverted the trailer to Lagos route. They left the driver and conductor in a bush at Ijebu-Ode and zoomed off.
When the conductor and driver came out from the bush, they saw people and narrated their ordeal. “The people directed them to the nearest police station. The owner of the trailer was called and he provided the trailer number. The owner said the conductor and driver should be detained.
The trailer had a tracker. The owner called the tracking office. The owner went to the OC FSARS. The trailer was tracked to Okokomaiko. “Before that, the robbers went to Abattoir, Agege, to contact a buyer. The money the buyer brought wasn’t enough. He directed them to another buyer at Okokomaiko.
Before FSARS got to Okokomaiko, policemen from Okokomaiko had already had an encounter with them. Immediately Okokomaiko policemen flagged them down, they came down and started firing. Three escaped, but Victor was arrested because he was in the driver’s seat.
Victor said that earlier, before they were confronted by another police team in a shootout, they had supplied the goods to a receiver and collected N30 million. The money is with Durojaiye. “Durojaiye and two others escaped. The police commissioner wanted to parade some suspects today (yesterday), but because of this escapade by his men, postponed the parade of suspects. He is very angry. He had already drafted some men to pursue the fleeing policemen.”
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