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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Ogun Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole
The Ogun Police Command on Tuesday stated it arrested 28-year-old Moses Ayomide for the alleged theft and killing of 1 Qudus Popolola within the Ijoko axis of the Agbado space of the state.
The police spokesperson within the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this recognized in an announcement in Ota, Ogun, saying that the suspect was arrested on Sunday.
Mr Oyeyemi defined that the suspect was arrested following a misery name acquired by law enforcement officials at Agbado Divisional Headquarters that armed robbers had been working at Fadahunsi, Ijoko space of Agbado, in Ifo Native Authorities Space.
He stated that upon the misery name, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Agbado Division, Awoniyi Adekunle, shortly led his males to the scene of the incident.
Mr Oyeyemi stated it was later found that the armed robbers had been escaping after robbing one Bashirat Anibire, a Level of Sale (POS) operator, of her bag containing money of N400,000 and her telephone.
He added that the robbers shot and killed one 25-year-old Qudus Popoola and injured one Faleye Oluwaseun.
Mr Oyeyemi additionally stated the robbers had been hotly chased, and with the assistance of youths within the space, one among them, Moses Ayomide, was apprehended, whereas others escaped.
The PPRO defined additional that the injured sufferer was rushed to hospital for medical consideration whereas the corpse of the deceased was launched to the household on request that they should bury him based on their spiritual perception.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the robbers, who’re three in quantity, got here on a bike with out mild at about 7:00 p.m. and attacked Bashirat Anibire, who was closing from her POS store.
“The sufferer managed to flee from the robbers, however whereas operating away along with her seven-year-old son, the robbers obtained maintain of the son, making the girl run again to save lots of her son.
“It was within the course of that the robbers had been capable of snatch her bag,” Mr Oyeyemi stated.
Based on him, the sufferer’s shout for assist attracted youths who pursued the robbers.
“It was of their bid to flee from the scene that the deceased and one different had been shot by the robbers,” he added.
In the meantime, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the speedy switch of the suspect to the State Felony Investigation Division for discreet investigation.
(NAN)
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