Two members of land grabbing syndicate Olaolu Fashina, 58 years, and Akinshola Oluwasanmi, 46 were on Monday 8th of November 2021 arrested by men of Ogun State police command, when they invaded Idiagbon community in Ado Odo Ota local government area of the state with offensive weapons.
The suspects were arrested following a distress call
received by the police in Onipanu Ota divisional headquarters at about 8p.m. The village is under attack by men suspected to be land grabbers,
numbering about sixty and armed with dangerous weapons.
The DPO Onipanu division CSP Bamidele job quickly mobilized his men and moved to the scene upon the distress call. On sighting the
policemen, the hoodlums who came with many motorcycles started shooting
sporadically in order to escape from the scene, but the policemen pursued them
and with the assistant of the people of the community, two amongst them were
apprehended.
Recovered from them are two live cartridges and one
Bajaj motorcycle with registration number TTD 472 VN.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, CP Lanre
Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to state criminal
investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation, he also
directed that the fleeing members of the gang be hunted for and brought to
justice. Therefore, the CP has warned hoodlums under any nomenclature to relocate
from the state as the gateway state will no longer be conducive for them to
operate.
