The Ogun State Police Command, have arrested three suspected robbers terrorising the Ejirin community in the Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State at their hideout in Lagos State.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Omolola Odutola, said the arrest came with capturing of Qudri Yusuf, a member of the syndicate, who had robbed the Cele Ejirin community.
The interrogation conducted for Yusuf, led police operatives to the gang’s hideout at the Idioro area of Mushin, Lagos State, where two other members of the syndicate were arrested.
Odutola identified the two suspected members of the syndicate as Bolaji Zutan and Oladimeji Yusuf.
The PPRO said, “On 18/09/2024, following the confessional statement of an armed robbery suspect, one Qudri Yusuf, M, 30, who had gone to rob a resident at Cele Ejirin Road in Ijebu-Ode on 10/09/2024, he led the team of detectives to their criminal hideout at Idioro, Mushin, Lagos, where two other members of the armed robbery gang, one Bolaji Zutan, M, 19, and one Oladimeji Yusuf, M, 30, were arrested.”
She added that exhibits, including cutlasses, were recovered from the suspects while stressing that efforts were ongoing to arrest other fleeing members of the syndicate.
“Exhibits recovered from them include four cutlasses. Efforts are ongoing to arrest other fleeing suspects and possibly recover the stolen items,” Odutola concluded.
Recalled on August 2, two suspected Aiye Confraternity members, known as Adisa Abiodun and Rasheed Makinde, were arrested for allegedly participating in a robbery attack on Hommies Hotel in the Ijoko community of the Ado-Odo-Ota Local Government Area of the state.
The suspects had previously participated in raping a 25-year-old female staff member (name withheld), who worked at the lounge and bar during the attack on the hotel.
A police operative involved in the arrest, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak for the command, had said that the suspects were a thorn in the flesh of the residents, wreaking terror and mayhem on the community.
