Highway Robbery: Robber Shot Dead After Gun Battle With Police
The Police Anti Crime Patrol Team attached to Ogbere Division of Ogun State Police Command on Tuesday at about 0110 hrs engaged some armed robbers who were operating at Ajede area near J3, along Ijebu Ode/Benin expressway and left one of the armed robbers dead while others fled the area with bullet wounds.
The Anti Crime patrol team was responding to a distress call that the hoodlums had blocked the road with one Toyota Bus with Reg.No NND 529 XA,which had earlier been snatched by the robbers,while they asked the commuters to lie down with a view to robbing them but the robbers were engaged by the police team,which arrived the scene on time, in a fierce gun duel. The gun duel left one of the robbers dead as a result of superior fire power of the police.
After the operation,the commuters were all rescued unhurt and all their belongings were intact. When a search was conducted on the dead robber,a cutlass,five life cartridges and assorted charms were recovered from him.
It would be recalled that the Inspector General of police IGP Solomon Arase recently launched Operation Safer Highway with the distribution of more than 600(six hundred) patrol vans and logistics to all commands and formations of the police for adequate protection of lives and property of road users all over the country,and the Commissioner of Ogun State CP Abdulmajid Ali has followed suit.
The Command has deployed more than 40(forty) patrol vans along all the highways in ogun state. The efforts of the command to protect lives and property of road users within ogun state have paid off as many highway robbery operations have been thwarted while many suspected robbers arrested.
The Commissioner of a police Ogun State has promised the general public of adequate security in Ogun State particularly during this Yuletide period and even beyond.,and has appealed to the general public,particularly medical practitioners,to be on watch of anyone with bullet wound so as to alert the police for enquiry.
DSP OLUMUYIWA ADEJOBI
PPRO OGUN STATE COMMAND
ELEWERAN ABEOKUTA
23/12/2015