Detectives attached to Ogun State
Police Command have arrested four suspected robbers, who allegedly specialised
in robbing churches and other places of worship at Awa Ijebu area of the state.
The suspects, Akinniyi Moses (43)
aka Canjour, Ogunfowoke Kayode (23), Michael Idogun aka head boy (35) and
Izunna Odah (29), were arrested following series of complaints from the
churches they have attacked.
Following the complaints, the Ogun
State Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, directed the Divisional Police
Officer (DPO) of Awa Ijebu to go after the armed robbers.
The DPO, a Superintendent of Police
(SP) Olu Monday, in compliance with the CP’s instruction, briefed his men to
embark on intelligence based investigation in order to get those behind the robberies.
The Ogun State Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said that the detectives’
efforts paid off after they received a tip-off from a concerned Nigerian. The
suspects, during interrogation, confessed to being responsible for the attacks
on churches in the area.
Some of the churches the robbers
claimed to have robbed are Methodist Church Oru ijebu, Love of Epistles Church
Ago Iwoye and a building at Ajebo in Oru Ijebu.
Items recovered from the suspects
are; a double barrel locally made pistol, 17.62mm live ammunition, five DBSG
live cartridges, six phones, three Ox fans, one big speaker, two vigilante service
identity cards, one plasma TV, two gas cylinders, one bullet proof vest, five stabilizers,
one church bell, two pistols, purse and one Jack knife.
Oyeyemi, however, said that the CP
has ordered that the suspects be transferred to Federal Special Anti-Robbery
Squad (FSARS) for discreet investigations.
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