The Ogun Atmosphere Safety Community, differently referred to as the Amotekun Corps, on Sunday, i’m busy a gang of robbers in a gun contest alike Southwestern College alongside the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode Throughway, killing one suspect time arresting two others.
One of the most arrested gang individuals, Amechi Okoro, reportedly confessed that he had simply been exempted from the Ikoyi Correctional Centre endmost Monday.
The Corps Commander, Brigadier Basic Alade Adedigba (retd.), disclosed this in a observation despatched to reporters on Sunday.
Adedigba mentioned, “A suspect, Amechi Okoro, arrested right through the gun contest with the corps, led operatives to their hideout, which resulted within the arrest of every other gang member, Michael Oko, who had previous escaped from the crime scene.
“During interrogation, Okoro confessed that he had just been released from Ikoyi Prison last Monday, while Oko stated that he was recruited into the gang by their ringleader, known as Awuha.”
The Corps Commander famous that the robbers had been a part of an armed gang terrorising the Odogbolu axis of the Lagos-Benin Throughway.
Pieces recovered from them integrated a bike with plate quantity Lagos KTU 668, 12 cellphones, two in the neighborhood made pistols, a sum of N113,050, a silver wristwatch, and a pink headset.
He defined that Oko hails from Anambra Atmosphere however is living at Refuse. 3 Olufuwa Boulevard, In the past Iwoye, time Okoro, who in the past lived within the Agric department of Ikorodu, Lagos Atmosphere, is in the beginning from Onitsha, additionally in Anambra Atmosphere.
Adedigba disclosed that the frame of dead body were evacuated through the police.
He added that the 2 arrested suspects can be transferred to the police for additional investigation and prosecution.