The suspects, Sola Bilaminu 25 and his accomplice Ibrahim Sandi 23, were knocked down by a moving trailer along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway while trying to evade police arrest.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP, Muyiwa Adejobi, said: “The suspects where robbing some road users in front of the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministry at weekend when the incident happened. While they were operating, they sighted a police patrol team and zoomed off in their motorbike.”
Adejobi said that the police patrol team, attached to Ibafo Police Station, gave the suspects a hot chase. In the process of trying to evade the policemen, the robbers were knocked down by the trailer on the expressway.
The moment the suspects and their motorbike went down, the pursuing policemen swooped on them.
Adejobi said: “The suspects sustained serious injury. But the stolen items recovered from the suspects had been returned to the owners. While the operational motorcycle used by the robbers was also recovered.”
The Ogun State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Abdulmajid Ali, who commended the police operatives for their commitment, ordered the suspects to be transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Magbon, Abeokuta for further investigation.
The CP also directed that the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway be adequately policed on regularly basis to protect road users plying the road at night.
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