Six armed robbers, who specialised in defiling and
killing their victims were on Thursday arrested by the Oyo State Police Command
in Ogbomoso after they were traced through a mobile telephone they stole from
one of their victims.
Commissioner of
Police in the state, Mohammed Katsina, said while parading the robbers that one
of them died during a gun duel with the police while another was seriously
injured.
Until their arrest,
the robbers were said to be living in different cities and only came together
when they wanted to go for operations. Katsina said investigation took his men
to Ijebu-Ode, Ibadan, Ogbomoso and Oyo where the robbers were picked up.
Katsina explained
that, “The group had been terrorising Oyo and Ogbomoso for a long time. On one
occasion, they robbed a house and gang-defiled two women. While escaping with
their loot after an operation on May, 28, 2015, they shot a passer-by. The gunshot
alerted my men and they acted quickly. Further investigation led us to
Ijebu-Ode where the leader of the gang was caught.
“His wife was in
possession of the mobile telephone that led us to him. He cooperated with us
and led us to other gang members. In their hide out in Ogbomoso, they opened
fire on the police, leading to a gun duel. At the end, two of them were injured
and one died in hospital. We must thank the public for their cooperation and
appeal to them to volunteer information when they notice unusual movement of
bad people in their community.”
A prominent member
of the gang, Fatai Balogun(28), who was traced to Ijebu-Ode, alleged that the
member that was killed during the gun battle with the police defiled and killed
their victims.
He said, “I live in
Ibiade in Ijebu Waterside and I sold fairly used imported clothes in Ijebu-Ode
before I joined the robbery gang about a year ago. I was introduced to the gang
by Jankaa who was killed in an operation in Mile 12 area of Lagos State. I have
participated in seven robbery operations in Ogbomoso and Oyo town.
“I have never
defiled any of our female victims. One of us, Segun, was fond of defiling our
victims. He was the one that was killed when police came to arrest us. When we
robbed a Ghanaian sometimes ago, we also killed his wife. Segun said that the
woman knew him so he shot her.”
Balogun added that
the gang started by stealing petty valuables before stealing a gun with which
they began armed robbery operation, defiling and killing.
“We started by
stealing mobile telephones and small valuables after cutting window nets to
gain access. But one day, we were coming from an operation when we saw a night
guard sleeping. We stole his double barrel gun.
“The last operation
was done in Oyo where we stole money, mobile telephones and computers in a
house. The phone was used to track us. I was in Ijebu when the police came to
my house, I knew there was no way out so I cooperated with them,” he added.
One of the victims,
who was defiled in their last operation, said they entered through the window
and forcibly took money from her husband who is a car dealer.
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