A robbery suspect, Segun Azeez, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command while planning an operation with his gang members.
The 26-year-old and others now at large had planned to attack residents of Agoro community in Sango Ota.
The Command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Sunday said Azeez was arrested on Thursday following a tip-off.
“Upon the information, the DPO Sango Ota division, SP Saleh Dahiru, quickly mobilised his patrol team and moved to the suspects hideout at Abanikole junction where the suspect was arrested while others escaped.
“Recovered from the arrested suspect are one locally made double barrel pistol and one live cartridge.
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“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that he was planning with other members of his gang to attack some houses in Agoro community before police swooped on them and got him arrested.”
The state’s Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has therefore ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for investigation, stressing that other members of the gang must be apprehended.