The Osun State Police Command has arrested two armed robbers operating within the Osogbo metropolis using a motorcycle.
According to The PUNCH, Spokesperson for the State Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, disclosed this in a statement.
She said the suspects, Adesina Hammed, 29, and Oyeladun Iyanu, 28, along with two others yet to be arrested, armed with cutlasses, accosted two men around the Olaiya Area of Osogbo around 7:30 pm on June 5.
Opalola mentioned that the gang, operating with a motorcycle, stopped their targets, who were also on a motorcycle, and marched them to a Point of Sale operator, where they forcefully obtained N400,000 from them.
The suspects also robbed their victims of an iPhone 13, which they sold for N140,000 in Osogbo.
The statement stated, “Upon reports and complaints from the general public through various media such as petitions, social media platforms, X(Twitter), Instagram, etc., of a brewing crime of kidnapping and forceful extortion of individuals by hoodlums referred to as ‘mini kidnappers,’ the Osun State Police Command has arrested two suspects named Adesina Hammed, 29, and Oyeladun Iyanu, 28, who have been terrorizing the city of Osogbo. The incident occurred at about 7:30 pm on June 5, 2024, when two young men were stopped along Olaiya towards Osun mall area by a group of four individuals on a motorcycle and were forcefully robbed of their phone (iPhone 13) with a cutlass, after which they took them to a POS operator to still rob them of the sum of N400,000. Upon a tip-off, a team of anti-cultism squad swung into action and apprehended these two suspects, with the remaining two gang members still at large.”
In a related development, Opalola also said the command had arrested a Kebbi State indigene, Yusuf Adamu, who was caught with an electricity cable suspected to have been stolen.
She said police operatives from the Divisional Headquarters ‘B’ Division, Ede, responding to distress calls on June 2, arrested Adamu at about 11:45 pm.
The PPRO noted that people who observed the suspect moving around with the cable at that hour alerted the police, and the operatives apprehended the suspect, who had since admitted stealing the items.
The declared a war on the criminals operating in the state, stating that operatives had been given a marching order to arrest all suspects linked to the crimes allegedly committed by those already in custody.
