THREE APPREHENDED FOR ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO KILL A POLICE SERGEANT ON DUTY
Operatives of Ogun State Police Command on Saturday, December 31,2022, arrested three men who allegedly attempted to kill a police sergeant, Akinpelu Sunday while carrying out his duty at Orile imo, in Obafemi Owode LG area of Ogun State.
The suspects identified as Olayiwola Basiru, Bamimore Isiaka and Soliu were arrested when they attacked a policeman and attempted to burn a police-towing vehicle so as to prevent an investigation into the cause of an accident that occurred.
The suspects attacked the policeman and the towing vehicle driver with sledge hammer, stick and other dangerous weapons in order to prevent them from taking one of the vehicles involved to the station for further investigation.
The policeman and the towing vehicle driver managed to escape from the scene and ran to the station with varying degrees of injuries.
The Divisional Police Officer, Owode Egba division, CSP Olasunkanmi Popoola when hinted, led his men to the place where he met the suspects who had already poured petrol on the towing vehicle and about setting it ablaze after removing the cash sum of N520,000 belonging to the towing vehicle driver,three of the hoodlums were arrested while others escaped but the remaining petrol was recovered from them.
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