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The suspect was arrested last Thursday, February 2, following a report lodged at Idiroko Divisional headquarters by one Alpha Akeem a community leader in Ihunbo town, who came to the station with the injured victim and reported that the suspect who have been warning the victim to stop having love affair with his younger sister fired a gunshot at him, but the victim narrowly escaped death. 

According to Abimbola Oyeyemi, the command’s spokesperson, the two suspects, Odogwu Wisdom and Akorede Aregbe were arrested following a distress call received by the DPO Igbeba divisional headquarters, at about 2 a.m, from local vigilante at Olisa area of ijebu Ode, that some vandals were carrying out their nefarious activities at an IBEDC transformer in the area.

The command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said the suspect was arrested at Obasanjo farm junction, Ota while the DPO Onipanu division, CSP Bamidele Job and his men were on routine patrol of the area. He said the DPO and his men sighted a motorcycle conveying three male passengers and when the motorcycle was flagged down, the passengers quickly jumped down and ran to different directions.