Scores of people who besieged the Oyo State Police Command
headquarters, Eleyele Ibadan where some robbery suspects and others were
paraded, could not believe their eyes seeing women’s underwear and other
personal effects being displayed as part of items allegedly stolen by four
able bodied suspected burglars from a shop at Sango area of Ibadan.
The suspects had
successfully burgled
the shop and allegedly
stolen the items, but
they ran out of luck as
vigilant policemen,
through intensive
investigation, traced
them to their hideout
at Apete area in Ido
Local Government Area
of the state.
The men whose names
were given as Godbless Oluku, 26, Alaka Babatunde, 23, Benjamin Ocran
Segun 18, and Jamiu Alabi, 38, up to the time they were being paraded
alongside other suspects could still not believe how the long arm of the law
caught up with them after leaving the scene of the burglary.
While they were sad that they would likely spend some time behind bars if
found guilty of the offence, the owner of the burgled shop was full of thanks
to the state police command led by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adeleye
Oyebade for their hard work which led to arrest of the suspects and recovery
of her wares which had been carted away by the hoodlums.
While speaking with Vanguard after the parade of the suspects, Bolanle
Ogunmiye said after the end of sales on Thursday, she closed her shop and
left for her house. But, unknown to her, the hoodlums had gained access to
her shop and parked her wares.
She said, “the burglars forced themselves into my shop between Thursday
and Friday, but I did not know until Saturday. When I got to my shop on
Saturday, they had emptied it. In my estimate, they stole goods worth well
over N150,000. Among the items they stole include a point of sale(POS)
machine, cosmetics, women’s undies and many other things.”
Ogunmiye thanked the police command for wiping her tears away by
recovering all the items, adding that if not for the vigilance of the police, the
burglars would have succeeded in stealing the items, wrecking her life and
leaving indelible scars on her. Only God can tell if she could have recovered
from the loss she would incur.
One of the suspects who felt reluctant to talk and stubbornly refused to
mention his name confessed saying, “we went to rob on Friday and later
burgled the shop at Sango. We were caught by men of Oodua Peoples
Congress who later handed us over to the police”.