The Ogun State Police command said, yesterday, that it arrested five persons after they robbed and raped a businesswoman along Idi-Iroko road in Yewa South Local Government Area of the state.
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The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement said that the victim, who left Lagos for Idi-Iroko, Tuesday, was taken to Olodo village where the hoodlums beat her up thoroughly and raped her.
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The suspects also robbed the victim of N1,803,000 cash, gold worth N200,000 and a wrist watch worth N5,000 and mobile/blackberry phones, all valued at N2,187,500.
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According to Adejobi, the anti-robbery team led by Sergeant Adebayo Oyesomi attached to the command’s State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Eleweran, Abeokuta while on normal routine patrol along Obada/Ewekoro/Ifo/Sango road sighted the victim by the road side at Papalanto junction in Ogun State after her release by the robbers and interrogated her.
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“She narrated her ordeal in the hands of the hoodlums and volunteered to assist the police to apprehend the suspects.”
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