The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspected cultist had been “on the wanted list of the Ogun State Command before now.
According to Oyeyemi, the suspect, who was identified as a 26-year-old Akibu Tikare, was apprehended by policemen attached to Ogijo division on Saturday, October 24.
Tikare, DAILY POST learnt, “was arrested following a distress call received at Ogijo division at about 9:30pm that a group of armed robbers were operating between Gbaga and Kamalu area of Ogijo, robbing people of their belongings at gun point.”
Oyeyemi told DAILY POST that other members of the group, who the suspect claimed came from Ikorodu and Owutu area of Lagos State, had escaped.
Our correspondent reports that the suspect was nabbed with a locally made double-barrelled short gun.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Cp Edward A. Ajogun has directed the transfer of the suspect to the State CIID, while ordering that the escaped suspects be tracked.
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