Three men arrested for killing nine persons in Ogun State

Three members of an armed robbery gang alleged to have been involved in the killings of no fewer than nine persons have been arrested in the Ijoko area of Ogun state.

It also arrested a landlord, Oludayo Adekunle, for allegedly stealing a car, Toyota Carina E, with number plate, LNB 961 BU, belonging to another landlord in Sagamu.

Parading the suspects and eight others on Monday at the command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, the state Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, gave the name of the suspected robbers as Razak Ogundairo (25), Idowu Tijani (45) and Raimi Ogunkunle (25).

He said the suspects had confessed to committing the crimes, adding that they had been terrorising the people of the Ijoko area for seven years.

Ali said a team of Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state stormed their hideout in Ijoko and arrested Ogundairo, who is said to be the ring leader, with one double-barrelled cut-to-size pistol and one single-barrelled pistol with 14 live cartridges.

He said,

 “The arrest of the suspect, who confessed to have killed five persons in the Ijoko area, led to the arrest of the two members of the gang.
“The leader of the gang, Idowu Tijani, confessed to have killed four people, including Soje, Babajeje and Agali in the Ijoko area.”

The items recovered from them were one AK-47 rifle with serial number, 348417, and nine rounds of live ammunition; one type 06 rifle with serial number, 07010583, and one automatic pump-action gun with serial number, 42716.

  to sell it.