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The Ogun State Police Command has said it had arrested a member of a robbery gang, Blessing Adedeji, while robbing commuters of their belongings on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
A statement on Friday by the command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was sighted by policemen in gridlock while attacking the occupants of a Toyota Camry car with a knife.
According to Oyeyemi, the suspect succeeded in dispossessing one Monsurat Ologundudu of her Tecno Camon-12 phone valued at N48,000 and a purse containing N3,000.
The statement read in part: “Men of the Ogun State Police Command on Thursday, November 28, 2019, arrested one Blessing Adedeji, a member of a robbery syndicate that specialises in robbing commuters of their belongings on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
“The suspect was arrested by policemen on surveillance patrol of the Magboro area of the expressway led by the DPO, Ibafo Division, SP Abiodun Ayinde.
“The suspect was sighted by the policemen in the gridlock occasioned by the construction work going on attacking the occupants of a Toyota Camry car with a knife and had succeeded in dispossessing one Monsurat Ologundudu of her Tecno Camon-12 phone valued at N48,000 and a purse containing the sum of N3,000.
“On sighting the policemen, he took to his heels but was chased and apprehended. The stolen items were recovered from him and released to the owner.”
Oyeyemi added that the Commissioner of Police(CP) in the state, Kenneth Ebrimson, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for discreet investigation.
He stated that the CP assured commuters plying the road of adequate security at all times.