The Ekiti State Police Command has stated that its officers and males will proceed to be relentless of their efforts to go in spite of everything prison components within the state and convey them to face the regulation.
The state Police Commissioner, Tunde Mobayo, gave the reassurance on the Command’s Headquarters in Ado-Ekiti in the course of the parade of 13 suspects concerned in numerous prison offences within the state.
Mobayo, who was represented by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, stated the suspects had been arrested for alleged conspiracy, armed theft, rape, homicide and illegal possession of firearms.
In response to the PPRO, the suspects confessed to the crimes, saying they fashioned the gang and began robbing with arms instantly after the disbandment of the Particular Anti-Theft, SARS, in October 2020.
Abutu stated, “The suspects confessed that they robbed harmless residents of Ekiti State in about 96 homes inside Ado-Ekiti and its environs corresponding to Embassy Inland, Ajebamidele, Niran college students hostel alongside Poly Street, the place they raped two feminine college students in 2021. Different locations embody, Agogo neighborhood in Ilupeju Avenue, the place they killed one Joseph Blessing, an evening guard and Ilawe-Ekiti. In addition they confessed to have killed one Apata Olabode, a POS operator in December 2021 in the identical space.
‘The suspects additionally raped a girl at Ajebamidele, Ado-Ekiti in January 2022. In addition they attacked residents of Irewolede Property alongside Ilawe highway in addition to Oke Ureje quarters, Ado-Ekiti in January 2022.”
Abutu stated one Joke Oladunjoye, a concubine of one of many suspects, Aderopo Tope, popularly often known as Tope Pupa, was additionally arrested following investigation that she retains her lover’s gun earlier than and after any operation.
He remarked additional that every one the arrested suspects are ex-convicts who had served completely different jail phrases within the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State and Olokuta Correctional Centre, Akure, Ondo State.
The PRO hoped that different members of the gang who’re at giant will quickly be arrested.
The command had final Monday paraded about 100 suspects for various prison offences. Supply: DailyPost
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