By Adebola Ajayi

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested four members of a Lagos based robbery gang, who have been terrorizing Ode-Remo area of the state in recent times.

The suspects, Habeeb Salaudeen, Ezekiel Jayesimi, Olamilekan Teniola, and Olaitan Sonibare, were arrested following a distress call received by policemen attached to Ode-Remo Divisional Headquarters that armed robbers numbering about seven have invaded a house at COTCO Road, Ode-Remo, and dispossesing the residents of their belongings.

A statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, showed that, upon the distress call, officers at the Ode-Remo Divisional Headquarters moved to the scene and on getting there, they engaged the hoodlums in gun battle, but the robbers managed to escape in a white Rav 4 car which they came with.

According to the statement, luck, however, ran against them when they were accosted by policemen at Warewa who stopped them having seen the bullet hole on their vehicle.

It said the robbers subsequently abandoned the car and ran away, but were technically trailed to Mushin area of Lagos where four of them were apprehended.

The statement indicated that the suspects have all confessed to the commission of the crime, and listed items recovered from them to include few I-phones and many android phones.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Frank Mba, has directed that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation, and a massive manhunt for the remaining members of the gang, with the view to bring them to justice.

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