Police recover nail rods planted on highways to puncture vehicle tyres
Adetokunbo Fakeye
Ogun State Police Command yesterday, said it has recovered heavy nail-like rods allegedly buried on highways along Abeokuta/Sagamu Expressway by hoodlums to puncture moving vehicles tyres.
In a statement made available yesterday by the command spokesman, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, it was stated that the highway patrol team attached to Ijebu Ode/Benin expressway has arrested four suspects, Oluwaseun Oladapo, Julius Tepe, Kamoru Moruf and Surajudeen Busari, while on express patrol along the expressway.
According to him on the arrested suspects, “the team flagged down one Honda Accord car with number plate Lagos AAA 219 BP, with the aforementioned occupants at Ososa area along the expressway and through the attitudes of the occupants when they were questioned about the ownership of the vehicle they were driving, the suspects were arrested.”
The PPRO also said in the statement that the command’s anti‑robbery team attached to the expressway on patrol recovered the nail-like rod allegedly planted by hoodlums along the road.
He said: “It would be recalled that hoodlums have been using this technique to destroy tyres on highways, thus robbing their victims (commuters) of their belongings. This prompted the command to re-strategise and put the axis under surveillance before their ‘weapons’ were discovered.
“The command restated its commitment to wage wars against highway robbers and other criminals in the state. The Commissioner of Police Ogun State, CP Ikemefuna Okoye has reassured the people of Ogun State and those on transit in the state of adequate security of lives and property particularly on our highways.
“The commissioner has ordered the Area Commander Sagamu, Assistant Commissioner of Police Lanre Bankole and his Ijebu Ode counterpart, ACP Mudashiru Abdullahi to investigate the two cases respectively and make sure they apprehend those involved in the acts of planting heavy nail-like objects on the roads all over their areas particularly Lagos/Ibadan and Ijebu Ode/Benin Expressways that pass through the two area commands in the state.” The statement said.
