The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Cp Shina Olukolu paraded twenty suspected criminals, comprising 10 armed robbers, kidnappers and a murderer.

The crime fighting Commissioner of Police while parading the suspects before journalists at the Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan on Tuesday, said the Command recorded the breakthroughs within the last three weeks as a result of the support of the people and proactive measures put in place by officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force.

Oyo State Commissioner of Police, CP Shina Olukolu while parading the suspects 

The first was a 34-year-old murder suspect, Abegunde Olaniyi who narrated how he killed an evangelist of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oke Imole, Agbeni, Ibadan, Oyo State with a wooden object and took possession of her bank account.

The suspect was among other suspects paraded by the Oyo State police command for alleged various crime.

While speaking with reporters at the Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, Abegunde said, he committed the heinous crime after he discovered that the deceased had over N2m in her bank account.

CP Olukolu  added that the suspect was later arrested by the police at his hideout in Akure, the Ondo State capital, and that the Tecno cell phone, three ATM cards belonging to the victim and the wooden object which he purportedly used to kill the victim have been recovered.

The suspect, upon interrogation, said he had withdrawn N120,000 from the victim’s bank account before he was arrested.

The Second set of suspects paraded were Ibrahim Mohammed, m, 30; Kasimu Salisu, m, 27; Buhari Musa, m, 35; Shago Blakky, m; and Folorunsho Elijah, m.

All are accused of armed robbery and kidnapping. They are suspected to have kidnapped two sisters of the same parents who got married in a poultry farm at Badeku Village, Egbeda area of Ibadan on March 16th.

The kidnap victims are Mrs Omobola Adepoju, who came back from the United States a few months ago, and her elder sister, Mrs Abiodun Ifeoluwa, who are daughters of a former Director of Sports, old Western State, and Proprietor, Subuola Memorial Nursery/Primary School, Ibadan, the late Chief Emiola Adesina.

The suspects, who allegedly dispossessed the two sisters of their mobile phones and some amount of money at gunpoint, reportedly released the victims after collecting ransom. But the suspects were said to have been arrested in their hideout at Adam’s Bar and Lodge, Bodija Market area, Ibadan. and other locations in Sokoto State.

The suspects are said to have confessed to the crime and a series of previous criminal activities they had masterminded within Oyo State. Five Bajaj motorcycles and N730,000, according to Olukolu, were also recovered from them.