Robber specialising in female hostels shot down; charms, weapons fail

Sodiq Yahaya, armed with charms and weapons, has been arrested after he and his accomplices opened fire on policemen during a robbery operation.

The Ogun police command said the DO of Isara Remo got a distress call while the bandits were robbing a student hostel in Ipara Remo on Thursday.

DPO Shobiyi Oluwatoshin the mobilized his me to the area, inviting the local vigilante group in the area.

“On sighting the policemen, the hoodlums opened fire on them and the policemen retaliated. At the end of the encounter, the robbers, who sustained varying degrees of gunshot injuries, took to their heels and escaped to the bush,” the Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said on Saturday.

Oyeyemi said the police officers later found Sodiq Yahaya lying down with gunshot injuries in the bush, and he was promptly arrested.

Yahaya has given useful information to the police concerning their past robbery operations in and around Sagamu area.

He added that the suspect confessed that his gang always targets students’ hostels for robbery operations, saying that was “because students, especially females are easy to rob.”