Ogun Police Arrest Oluomo, Three Others for Murder

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested 4 members of a syndicate who specialised in robbing and killing Level Of Sale (POS) and Uber operators.

Spokesperson of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi in an announcement stated the suspects, Kehinde Saliu Jelili aka Oluomo; Abiodun Akinola, Johnson Fakeye and Jamiu Akinola had been all arrested following a criticism lodged at Onipanu divisional headquarters on the 18th of April, 2021.

The criticism was made by one Aanu Salaudeen.

She stated she was a POS attendant to 1 Abiodun Odebunmi and that her boss left his workplace at Aparadija the day before today, to satisfy a buyer with N4 million for use for POS transaction.

She acknowledged additional that the stated Odebunmi has not been seen since then, and that each one calls made to his line had not gone by.

In response to her, that they had earlier carried out a transaction of N1.5 million with the one that invited his boss the day before today, and that it was the identical particular person, who called his boss to meet him at Ojuore to do one other POS transaction of N4 million.

“Upon the report, the policemen at Onipanu commenced investigation into the sudden disappearance of the person.

Their efforts paid off when the burnt physique of the sufferer was found in an uncompleted constructing at Arobieye space of Ota with out the hint of his assailants.

“The case was briefly transferred to murder part of the State Felony Investigation and Intelligence Division on the order of the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun.

Ajogun mandated the murder workforce to unravel the perpetrators of the dastardly act throughout the shortest potential interval.

“The CSP Femi Olabode-led murder workforce, in compliance with the CP’s directive, launched into technical and intelligence based mostly investigation, which led them to Otun Ekiti in Ekiti State the place the suspect was found to be hibernating,” Oyeyemi defined.

“On attending to Ekiti, the suspect obtained wind of the presence of the detectives and shortly escaped to Offa in Kwara State.

“With willpower to apprehend him, the workforce continued trailing him and so they later obtained data that he was in Benin Republic, the place he had gone to attend the court docket session of Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, and that he would quickly be coming to Nigeria.

“Having gotten the details about the day he could be returning to Nigeria, the workforce laid ambush for him and obtained him arrested on the boundary between Ogun and Lagos State.

“On interrogation, Jelili, who claimed to be a local of Apomu in Osun State confessed killing the sufferer,” Oyeyemi acknowledged.

In response to Oyeyemi, the suspect confessed that he intentionally lured the sufferer to Ota the place he and his gang members had been ready for him with the cash he was requested to deliver, having transacted a N1.5 million enterprise with him the day before today.

He stated they macheted him to dying after amassing the cash from him.

“He acknowledged additional that they burnt the sufferer’s physique to cowl their tracks, including that their focused victims had been all the time Uber and POS operators.

“In response to him, one among them would fake as passenger to the Uber driver, and would lure such driver to the place his members had been ready, and that as quickly as he obtained to the place, the motive force could be hacked to dying with the automobile stolen and bought.

“Additionally, the suspect acknowledged that he and his gang attacked one other sufferer, one Idowu Ademiluyi at Itori space and snatched his Toyota Corolla automobile, having macheted him to the purpose of dying.

“The arrest of Kehinde Salihu, led the detectives to their receiver, Abiodun Akinola who’s a standby purchaser of each proceed of their crime.

“The confessional statements of the duo led to the arrest of the other two suspects, Johnson Fakeye and Akinola Jamiu at Atan Ota and Owode Yewa respectively,” he stated.

Oyeyemi stated Toyota Camry, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Rave 4, whose homeowners had been gruesomely murdered, had been recovered from the gang.