Police arrest three vigilantes for robbery, murder of OOU student

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three members of a vigilance group for alleged armed robbery and killing of a 400 level student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.

The suspects were alleged to have stormed a hotel in Ijebu Igbo area of the state where they robbed lodgers and left with two persons. One of their abductees was said to have returned later while Ahmed Obisanwo never did.

Parading the suspects on Wednesday at the police headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta, the state Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, said the three suspects – Idowu Ayodele, 53; Segun Ogunsanwo, 53; and Akeem Salisu, 55 – would face murder charge.

Makama added that his men had recovered weapons including four guns from the suspects.

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Detailing what happened, Makama said the suspects invaded a hotel in Ijebu-Igbo area of the state on August 8, this year and allegedly robbed the people of their valuables and later absconded with two young men.

“They seized two people and didn’t return them. After a while, one of them came back and said he had escaped. When we asked him about the second person he was abducted with, he said, he was dead. It is six weeks today, that person has not returned.”

Makama further explained that the command received a complaint which prompted his men to investigate the matter.

“On further interrogation, they said the other person that was taken had been killed and his remains thrown into a river. We asked them to identify the river so we can go there and conduct a search and recover his corpse.

“One of them claimed to be a member of the So-SAFE corps but the boss has denied that. One of the weapons is painted in police colour. They will be made to face the full wrath of the law,” he said.

 

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