After 24 days on-the-run police finally nabbed Tarmac robbery suspects

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested three members of a robbery syndicate, who invaded the popular Abeokuta phone market known as Tarmac, in Oke-Ilewo area of the state capital.

ValidView Network had reported that the robbers invaded the market, killed one of the traders identified as Dayo Bankole at the market and carted away several expensive phones during the robbery attack on 12 April, 2023.

One of the robbers, Sakiru Adeniji, was however unlucky as he was arrested at the scene of the crime, while others escaped.

The command public relations officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi in a statement on Saturday, gave the name of the three arrested suspects as Ajayi Kayode, Habeeb Idowu and Temitayo Oresanya.

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Oyeyemi said, “the suspects were arrested, following an information received by policemen attached to Kemta divisional headquarters that the suspects have been hibernating at Abule Ake area of Kemta for quite some time in order to evade Police arrest”.

“Upon the information, the DPO Kemta division, CSP Adeniyi Adekunle, mobilized his men and moved to the scene where the three suspects were apprehended”.

Two amongst the suspects have confessed their participation in the robbery incident, while the third, Temitayo Oresanya, who affirmed to be a member of the same cult group with them, claimed he did not participate in the robbery attack,” Oyeyemi said.

Oresanya told the police that Kayode and Idowu came to his house at Abule Ake “to hide from the police after their robbery escapade.”

Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, who commended members of the public for their cooperation by giving useful information to the police, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation Departments for discreet investigation.

He also directed that the remaining members of the gang must be hunted for and brought to justice.