I Was Lured into Robbery After Being Held In Prison In Place Of Friend – Suspect
One of the suspected armed robbers paraded by the Osun state police command on Wednesday revealed how he was lured into robbery at Ile-Ife prison custody when he was held in place of his friend who evaded arrest.
The suspect, Oyewumi Oyelakin said a motor dealer who was detained in the prison introduced him to car robbery and assured him of quick and easy sale of stolen cars.
Confessing to the crime, Oyelakin said, “I formed the group in November 2018 . We were arrested after our eighth operations. We normally sell off the valuables we stole. We specialize in stealing corollas cars and we sell at the rate of N500,000”.
Others paraded alongside Oyelakin were Adebayo Yemi, Adeyeye Opeyemi, Olawale Munirudeen, Sunday Ogbemudia, Lasisi Isiaka, Samuel Johnson and Isiaka Fatai.
The suspects included a four-man robbery-gang led by the aforementioned Oyelakin Oyewunmi (24) that specialized in stealing cars.
Speaking with newsmen at the state Police Command the commissioner of police, Mrs Abiodun ige said the special anti robbery squad arrested the suspects following reports from their victims.
Her words: “we have apprehended some suspected armed robbers who have been terrorising Osun for quite a long time. We were able to trace their activities from 2018 and we were able to arrest all of them.
“Recovered from the suspects are five vehicles, mobile phones, laptops wrist watches snatched from different locations, and arms and ammunitions.
“They stole all the items a man was preparing to use for his coronation. They go to people’s houses snatched their vehicles, pack their belongings including phones, clothes, laptop among others.
“They were arrested one after the other. Some of them have been charged to court while this ones have been helping us get the others for about a month, two months.
They will also be charged to court after we have concluded our investigations.
“We also arrested Lasisi Isiaka, another suspect who specializes in snatching of motorcycle from viticms with dangerous weapon and Samuel Johnson and Isiaka Fatai who received the stolen motorcycles. 5 was found in Samuel’s possession. 3 in Fatai’s possession. In total, we recovered 8 motorcycles from them.”
She said the police would not rest on its oars to ensure the state is crime free, adding that every effort to get criminals arrested and rid the state off criminals would be put in place.
