Crime

Ondo Police Parades 15 Suspected Robbers, Rapists

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The Ondo state Police Command has paraded fifteen suspects in connection with armed robbery, gang-raping, attacking and snatching of motorcycles in the state.

Parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters, Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bolaji Salami said the suspects were arrested at different locations in Akure and other parts of the state.

According to the Police Commissioner, twelve armed robbers and three suspected rapists were arrested while nine stolen motorcycles, one pump action gun as well as one truck and its content were recovered from the suspects.

Mr Salami noted that his detectives swung into action and in the process apprehended 27-year-old Gbenga Kikiowo and 25-year-old Aladeloye Tope at Oke-Aro area of Akure.

The CP said with the proactive nature of the police in Ondo State, an eight-man robbery syndicate that specializes in snatching articulated vehicles with its contents at gun-point were nabbed by the police.

The police commissioner said all the suspects would be charged to court immediately, as some of the suspects confessed to the offence during an interview with newsmen.

One of the suspects, a 27-year-old, Gbenga Kikiowo, said he had started robbery at the tender age of seven years at his home town in Igbara-Oke and has been jailed severally. Leke Adegbite

Crime

Ondo Police Begins Investigation Into 40-Year-Old’s Assassination

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The Ondo State Police Command has confirmed the alleged assassination of a forty-year-old man, Mr Babatunde Adeluka Olubasa by unknown persons inside a popular hotel at Ijapo Area of Akure. 

He was alleged to have been shot dead inside the hotel premises where he lodged last Saturday, after he was trailed to the hotel by three armed men after attending a function in Akure.

He was shot at the bar of the hotel where he relaxed to take a drink.

Confirming the incident, the Ondo State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Tee-Leo Ikoro, said it was a case of assassination.

Mr Ikoro disclosed that the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bolaji Salami, had ordered a full-scale investigation into the killing, even as the entire premises of the hotel is now deserted.

Leke Adegbite

Security

Don’t be demoralized by recent attacks – IGP charges police officers

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The Inspector General of Police, Mr Muhammed Adamu has paid a working visit to Ondo state to assess level of destruction during the #EndSARS protests and to lift the spirit of his officers to carry out their lawful duties of protecting lives and property.

This is just as he declared that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved salary increment for all policemen.

Addressing a cross-section of policemen at the Police State Headquarters, Igbatoro Road, Akure, the Inspector General pleaded with them to start doing their jobs with confidence, also urging them not to be demoralised by attacks suffered during the #EndSARS protests.

Mr Adamu said the recent mass promotion of junior officers was to encourage his men to do their job diligently more than ever before, noting that various reforms including introduction of Police Trustfund and Health Insurance Scheme had been approved by the federal government to boost their moral.

In a remark, the Commissioner of Police in Ondo State, Mr Bolaji Salami, said over eight hundred policemen were promoted in the recent mass promotion.

Leke Adegbite

Crime

#EndSARS Protests: Ondo Police Arrests Looters And Arsonists

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The Ondo State Police Command says two policemen and one civilian were killed during last week’s violence that engulfed the state amidst #EndSARS protest.

The state Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, who confirmed this in Akure, while parading eighteen suspected looters and arsonists, explained that the two policemen were killed in Ore and Ondo town.

Mr Salami said the victim in Ore was mobbed while the policeman in Ondo was killed and burnt inside his car.

He said the civilian casualty was one of the three-man gang that attempted to rob a new generation bank in Ondo town.

Leke Adegbite