Police kill three robbery suspects, arrest one in church

[Mirror]

The Ogun State Police Command yesterday killed three suspected members of the armed robbery gang who attacked a filling station at Onihale area of Ifo in which four men of the state vigilance service were killed.

The police also arrested one member of the gang at a church in Ota where he was treating the wound he sustained during a gun battle with the police. It was leant that the suspect had attacked the filling station on Saturday.

Addressing journalists on the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, said policemen, in the early hours of yesterday engaged the robbers in a gun battle at Oko Bale axis of Ilogbo in Ota – a few kilometres from the Onihale robbery scene. Adejobi said the gun duel led to the death of the three members of the armed robbery gang.

Items recovered from them included one made-in Ghana triple barreled gun, seven live cartridges, one iron rod, rope and cellotape.

Adejobi said one of the suspects, whose name was given as Babatuunde Sotayo (28), was arrested following a tip-off at a church in Ota where he was treating the bullet wound he sustained on his right leg.

According to him, Sotayo's arrest led to the arrest of the three other suspects, whose names were given as Dauda Yekini (33), a herbalist and armourer to the robbery gang. The two other suspects are 22-year-old Quadri Adeosun and Matthew Abiodun (22).

National Mirror