Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Akeem Adeleke for hijacking a truck loaded with industrial raw material along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway at gunpoint.
The Command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident in a statement he issued on Thursday.
The suspect was arrested on April 4, 2023 following a distress call made to men of Federal Highway Patrol stationed along the expressway by driver of the truck, who ran to them and informed them that while driving his truck towards Ibadan, two unknown gunmen suddenly jumped into the vehicle and pushed him out.
He explained further that the hoodlums took over the vehicle from him and drove it towards Lagos.
Upon the complain, the patrol team started tracing the truck towards Lagos and they luckily sighted it somewhere along the road.
Having noticed that policemen were trailing them, one of the robbers, who was driving the truck, jumped out on motion, fell down and hit his head against the tarred road.
He died on the spot.
Adeleke, his accomplice, was subsequently arrested and taken to Ewu-Oliwo Divisional Police Headquarters.
The Divisional Police Officer of Ewu-Oliwo Police Division, Toyosi Bello, a Chief Superintendent of Police, accompanied the patrol team to the scene where the corpse of the dead robber was recovered to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital morgue.
Recovered from the arrested suspect were one locally made pistol, three live cartridges, two itel phones and some criminal charms.
The Command’s Commission, CP Frank Mba, has directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation.
