The Divisional Police Officer of Owode Egba under the Ogun State Police Command has achieved a major breakthrough by dismantling a gang of three individuals notorious for motorcycle armed robbery.
On October 11, 2024, a resident provided information that led the police to apprehend the suspects who attacked one Rotimi Bajela.
The report stated that 60-year-old Bajela was leaving Ajura township and riding towards Ijemon Kukoyi Village via Owode Egba on his boxer Bajaji motorcycle, whose registration number is not yet known.
As he travelled along the Ajura/Olojo/Shiun Road, three men emerged from the bushes and assaulted him with a gun and a machete.
During the attack, the assailants shot at him.
When the gun failed to injure or kill him, they resorted to hitting him with the machete on his head and neck, thereby robbing him of his motorcycle, money, and an Itel mobile phone.
According to information available to The Eagle Online, when police investigators visited him on his hospital bed, Bajela stated that he clearly recognised the attackers and could identify them as Adegboyega Sarafa, 42; Soliu Bankole, 38; and Sogo Idris, alias Agbara, 46.
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All three suspects were arrested on October 14, 2024, and the locally made gun and machete used during the attack have been recovered.
It was learnt that the suspects are currently being interrogated, and the crime scene in the Olojo Village bush area has been examined, with photographs taken.
When contacted by The Eagle Online, the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the development.
Odutola, a Superintendent of Police, added: “Further updates will be shared with the public.”
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