…From Dele Ogunyemi, Ibadan…
A suspected robbery kingpin, Yemi Adeleke, is in police net in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.
Adeleke, the police said, has already confessed to being the mastermind of a robbery operation in which a four-man gangsters forcefully dispossesed a man in Kwara State of his Toyota Highlander car with registration number Lagos KJA 246 AX as well as other items including laptops, handsets and unspecified amount of money while the man’s night guard was also shot and amputated in the gory encounter.
Yemi Adeleke was paraded to journalists at the Oyo State Headquarters of the Nigeria Police, Eleiyele, Ibadan on Tuesday alongside 13 other suspects involved in other criminal activities.
Briefing journalists, the Commissioner of Police for the State Command, Mr. Mohammed Indabawa stated that the interception of the robbery gangsters followed a distress call received on Sunday, April 27 this year at about 11 a.m. from the Kwara State Command’s Anti-robbery section that the gangsters had just concluded their nefarious operation and heading towards Oyo State.
Sequel to the information, the Commissioner of Police said, officers and men of the Oyo State Command were put on the red alert just as the Officer in charge of Special Anti Robbery Squad, Oyo/Ogbomoso, SP Olusola Aremu led two patrol teams to lay ambush for the robbers on Oyo/Ogbomoso express road where they had n encounter with the fleeing robbers.
“In the ensuring gun battle between the police and the robbery suspects, the gangsters fell to the police superior fire power and fled into the bush with various degrees of bullet wounds, abandoning the vehicle,” Indabawa stated.
The Police boss disclosed that the unrelenting SARS operatives further went after the robbers into the bush and their search for the suspects yielded result as one of them with bullet wounds on his two legs, Yemi Adeleke, was found where he was hiding and was subsequently arrested.
On interrogation, Adeleke reportedly claimed to be the mastermind of the robbery operation.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has expressed gratitude to members of the public all over the State who have been supporting the security operatives in their surveillance activities through provision of necessary information which, he said, have been yielding