It is the end of the
road for a notorious five-man robbery gang who have been terrorizing residents
of Abeokuta after they were nabbed by the police.
The suspects, two of whom are
siblings, have at one time or another been charged to court for armed robbery.
It was also gathered that most of them, whose cases were yet to be disposed of
by an Ijebu-Ode Magistrate’s Court have jumped bails
Most worrisome is that two notorious
criminals currently in the Ijebu-Ode Prison, where the smashed five-man robbery
gang members are still awaiting trials, Obabiyi a.k.a Oba ‘B’ and Ojubintin,
call from the prison to give orders to the bandits on where next to operate in
Ijebu-Ode
The use of phones and laptops in the
prison, though not allowed, but according to the suspects, it was done through
the active connivance of prison warders who, they said, sometimes resorted to
general checkings, to mop up the gadgets at the disposal of inmates, but the
exercise was not in totality.
Among the places the suspects
confessed to have operated were Epe Road, Satina, Kajola, Emuren and Eruwon,
all in Ijebu-Ode, aside Epe axis.
The five-member gang are Adeleke
Ajayi, a.k.a Ajasco, 28, Segun Ajayi, 30, Gabriel Oriola, a.k.a Stone, 31,
Adebayo Opeyemi, 33 and Wasiu Ogunlana, 28, who is the gang’s armourer.
Their arrests followed a tip-off on
the syndicate’s robbery escapades, leading to Wasiu’s nabbing with three
locally made guns, comprising two single barrels and a double barrel, all
pistols.
Also found in his possession were 13
rounds of live ammunition, which he claimed belonged to the group and
consequently named the four other suspects, whose arrests were through
technical intelligence.
A spectacular incident narrated by
Wasiu Ogunlana as the first operation that threw him into prison in 2014 was
the death of one ‘Mama Sunkanmi’ in Ijebu-Ode.
According to him, during the woman’s
wake-keep and lying-in-state, he went there as a guest of one of the deceased’s
grandsons, simply identified as Mayor, and tactically removed the gold necklace
worn on the deceased and replaced it with a substandard one.
He said the whole episode was a
conspiracy between him and the said Mayor, adding that they sold the necklace
to one Aboki in Ijebu-Ode for #90,000.
Wasiu stated that, the development
so much piqued family members, who resorted to consulting a diety, to detect
who changed the necklace.
However, sensing the repercussion,
which would lead to mysterious death, Mayor was said to have owned up to the
family, resulting to their arrests and arraignment in court.
“We were in the prison between 2014 and 2017. After serving
my jail term, Oba ‘B’, from the prison connected me with Adeleke Ajayi, a.k.a
Ajasco, leader of the gang, and we went for the Satina operation. It was the
same Oba ‘B’ that, also from the prison, controlled one Ejima, a Beninoise, to
give me the three pistols for our operations. At the end of each operations, we
give Oba ‘B’s share, in monetary terms, to his wife, who takes it to him in the
prison”, Wasiu revealed
Meanwhile, Ogun State Commissioner
of Police, Iliyasu Ahmed, has ordered the FSARS to, on completion of
investigation, charge the suspects to court.
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