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Fri Jun 11 2021
Operatives of Ogun Police Command have arrested two suspected armed robbers for allegedly burgling a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Sagamu, Ogun State.
The suspects, Fidelis Francis, 28, and Lukman Jimoh, 40, were arrested after scaling the fence of the church shortly after burgling the church of iron rods.
Our correspondent gathered that the suspects, who reportedly hid for five hours in a bush after their escape, went back to where they parked their operational vehicle close to a bush around the crime scene.
The police who had laid ambush in the area reportedly swooped on the suspects.
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Two suspects have been arrested by the police for robbing a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) at the GRA, Sagamu, Ogun State.
The Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, identified the suspects as Fidelis Francis (28), a resident of Udem, Cross River State and Lukman Jimoh (40) from Akure, the Ondo State capital.
Oyeyemi, in a statement on Wednesday, said they were apprehended on March 7, following a distress call received by the DPO of Sagamu divisional headquarters at about 2 am.
Upon the distress call, the DPO of Sagamu Division, CSP Okiki Agunbiade, was said to have mobilized his men and the local vigilante to the scene, saying, however, that “the robbers escaped through the fence before the arrival of the police.”
Police kill two armed robbers in gun duel in Ogun
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By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta
Men of the Ogun State Police command on Sunday, shot and killed two suspected armed robbers at Sagamu Interchange, along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi who disclosed this on Monday in a statement said, the police engaged the robbers in a gun duel during a robbery operation.
According to Oyeyemi, the police at the Sagamu division, received a distress call, that “a robbery operation was going on at Sagamu Interchange and that one of their victims has been seriously injured.
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Two suspected armed robbers have been shot during a gun exchange with the police in Shagamu, Ogun state, an official has said.
The incident occurred around 9 p.m. on Sunday, and other members of the gang escaped with gunshot injuries.
The Ogun State police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Monday, said the robbery operation was at the interchange area of Shagamu before the police intervened and shot dead two of the suspected armed robbers.
Mr Oyeyemi said the police responded to a distress call and the officers met the suspected robbers attacking one Agba Enoch, before they engaged them in a gun duel.