An armed robbery suspect was in the early hours of Friday shot dead along the Shagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command while robbing people.
The spokesman of the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, revealed this in a statement on Saturday.
According to Oyeyemi, the suspect met his Waterloo when the Divisional Police Officer, Odogbolu Division, SP Awoniyi Adekunle, and his his men, who were on joint patrol with a team of military men, received a distress call that armed robbers numbering about seven had blocked the road around South Western University and are dispossessing people of their belongings.
Upon the distress call, the DPO and his team moved to the scene, but as soon as the armed robbers sighted them, they engaged them in gun duel, which lasted for about 45 minutes.
At the end of the encounter, one of the robbers was arrested with severe bullets wounds, while others escaped with varying degrees of gunshot wounds.
The arrested suspect gave up the ghost on the way to the hospital.
The Command’s Commissioner, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, who commended the quick response and bravery of his men, has directed that the entire area be properly combed with the view to apprehending the fleeing members of the gang.
The CP also appealed to members of the public, especially hospitals, to alert the police if anybody with gunshot injury is seen in their area.