Police attached to the Agbara divisional headquarters in Ogun State has arrested three suspected land grabbers, Adewale Muyibi, Kamoru Ayodele and Taofeek Ogundele were arrested following a distress call that armed hoodlums have invaded Jegede village and were shooting sporadically.
This was contained in a statement released by the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi on Wednesday, 27th October, 2021.
The suspects were arrested on Monday, 25th of October while invading Jegede village in Igbesa area of Ado odo ota local government with dangerous weapons, with which they inflicted varying degrees of injuries on members of the community.
Upon the distress call, the DPO Agbara division, SP Saleh Dahiru, led his men to the scene where six men, namely Sunday Okorie, Shoneye Akeem, Lakan Oloyede, Jimoh Musibau Akande Oyedeji and Hamzat Idiris, who have been shot by the hoodlums were rescued to the hospital for treatment, while three amongst the hoodlums were apprehended and others escaped.
Recovered from them are; six live cartridges and fourteen expended cartridges.
Oyeyemi said: the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be transferred to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.
The fleeing members of the gang be hunted for and brought to justice, he added.
The CP therefore warned land grabbers to stair clear of the state, as their violent activities will not be tolerated by the command under his watch.
