Ogun police arrest 17-year-old Beninoise, others for robbery

A cross-border armed robber, 17-year-old Beninoise Wilben Kende, has been arrested by the men of the Ogun State Police Command.

The police said Kende, whose accomplice, Woti Usa, was still at large, specialised in snatching motorcycles from their owners in the Owode area.

He was said to have been arrested on November 5, at the Oke Irinja area, Owode Yewa, after snatching a motorcycle from one Gbadebo Taiwo, a commercial okada rider, at gunpoint.

It was learnt that Taiwo was hired by Kende and his accomplice to take them to Ago Baba, but on the way he (Kende) deliberately dropped off one of his slippers.Continue...

According to the Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, Kende then told Taiwo to stop.

“It was at this point he brought a loaded locally-made pistol and pointed it at Taiwo and snatched his motorcycle,” he added.

While being paraded on Monday, Kende confessed to the crime, but said the pistol found on him belonged to his accomplice.

Also arrested by the police were two friends, Fidelis Sunday and Okechukwu Ibie, who were alleged to have robbed one Eghosa Omofonmuvan, a driver of a DAF truck loaded with electronics heading for Onitsha at the J4 area of Benin-Shagamu Expressway, Ogbere and diverted goods worth N3.1m to other places.

Sunday and Ibie denied robbing anyone, but however could not say what they had gone to do at the Ogbere area.

The fourth suspect that was paraded was one Afolabi Hassan, a dismissed captain from the army. He was arrested for impersonation.

Okoye added that as the 2015 general elections were fast approaching, the command would not tolerate any f breach of peace or criminality.

He urged politicians, groups or individuals who were in possession of illegal arms and ammunition to come forward and turn them in to the police within 14 days or face the wrath of the law.

The police boss also warned those who drive unregistered cars or ride unregistered motorcycles to desist from such.