Ogun police arrest two ATM robbers
Chioma Joseph
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two members of a syndicate that specialise in robbing bank customers after cash withdrawals from ATM points.
The suspects,Ebenezer Olubukola,30, and Olajide Oladejo,29, were arrested last Thursday at the Ota area of the state.
The gang met their waterloo after they had positioned themselves close to a First bank ATM, waiting to strike.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said the Policemen on routine patrol, led by The Area Commander, Ota, intercepted their operation.
The PPRO said,“On Thursday June 20,2019, men of the Ogun Police Command arrested two suspected members of a syndicate who specialized in robbing people of money withdrawn from ATM machines.
“ Their mode of operations is to look around banks observing those who will withdraw substantial amounts of money and trace such person with their standby motorcycle to a convenient area for them to rob him or her.
“ Luck however ran against them when the Area commander Ota, Monday Agbonika an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ACP), who was on routine patrol with the men of ‘Operation Puff Adder’, sighted the three men on a Bajaj motorcycle around the first Bank area in ota.
“ The Area commander who suspected their movement and outlook asked his men to intercept and search them.
Having realized that the policemen were after them, they all jumped off the motorcycle and took to their heels, but they were hotly chased and two amongst them were apprehended while the third one escaped.”
Recovered from the suspects were a locally made pistol with five live cartridges and a Bajaj motorcycle with registration number AKM 490 WT.
Briefed on the development, the commissioner of police, CP Bashir Makama, has ordered the transfer of the suspects to Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for discreet investigation.
Makama equally ordered a serious manhunt for the fleeing member of the gang with the view of getting him arrested within the shortest possible time.
