The suspect, Lance Corporal Zakaria Saleh, was nailed after some of the gang members arrested by SARS operatives, mentioned his name as a gang member
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The Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, who paraded the suspects, also displayed 12 AK-47 rifles, two K2 rifles, 30 fully loaded AK-47 magazines and one pump action gun
Balogun was said to have slumped and died at SARS on a day she had just returned from the General Hospital Ikeja
One of the gang members explained that the operation was painstakingly planned as the gang had planned to attack the church just as tithes and offerings were being collected
One of the gang members, Oliyinde Mutiu, was said to have been arrested when he came into Lagos State and tried to sell one of the cars they had snatched in another state
After her husband, a half-caste, simply as identified as China, was killed, police had gone to her home and arrested her, her baby, who was then just three months old, and China’s younger sister
The SARS operatives have arrested over 30 of his gang members and also recovered large chunk of arms and ammunition from them
The dead robbers had been identified to be members of the gang that killed the owner of 04 Hotel in Ajah, last Sunday, before setting the hotel on fire
According to detectives, the woman, who is from Benin Republic, used to assist her husband’s gang to smuggle arms and ammunition through the borders
Damasus said that the robbery suspects were arrested after they were engaged in a gun battle with officers and men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad
The Judge said the court was rather convinced that the injuries sustained by the accused at the scene of the bombing in Kaduna did prevent any intentions to torture the accused
They used a palace messenger, Victor Chiejine Onochie, identified as a member of the gang, to infiltrate the palace
Part of the reasons they were honored was their pivotal role in clamping down on armed robbers in Lagos State
However, a police team, led by the Commander, Area G of the Nigeria Police, Assistant Commissioner of Police Abdullahi Ishola, foiled the robbery operation and arrested all the members of the eight-man gang
Bolanle’s allegation however sharply contradicted the story of Raymond, her boyfriend, and police detectives who had been working the case
The suspects were killed during a gun battle as they attempted to escape with a Toyota Sienna space bus and a Toyota Camry car they snatched at gun point at Ejigbo and Ikotun areas of Lagos State
This was in response to the attack on the headquarters of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Abuja on Monday morning
The police also said that 30 of those being detained at the SARS headquarters were freed during the attack, confirming speculations that the attackers were there to free the detainees