Six men suspected to have practical experience in burglarizing travelers in business vehicles in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, have been captured by the Kwara State Police Command.
Our journalist learnt that the suspects ordinarily utilize two taxis for their operations however were captured a week ago Sunday.
The police recognized the suspects presently, Adisa Ismaila, Toyin Folorunsho, Dare Alawo, Suleiman Shehu and Raheem Kareem. The Public Relations Officer, Kwara State Command, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, said they were captured by a police watch group.
As per him, the suspects were attempting to seize a casualty, Aisha Raji, of her paraphernalia at the General Hospital indirect when the police caught and captured them.
Okasanmi expressed that the police had started an examination concerning their exercises and making endeavors to find their associates.
He included that the suspects would be arraigned after the consummation of examination.
Raji told writers that she boarded the vehicle when the driver said they were going to Tanke range of Ilorin.
She included that she never realized that the inhabitants were looters.
She said there were four men incorporating the driver in the taxicab with two sitting at the back and one gathered traveler next to the driver in the front.
She said other individuals who ended up being assistants boarded the vehicles at diverse spots.
As indicated by her, it was the point at which they were near to the healing facility indirect that they requested her to discharge every one of her things to them.
She said she delayed in light of the fact that she had N78,750 in her pack. She included that the suspects jumped her and were attempting to confiscate her of the cash, her sack and different effects when a police watch van was cruising by.
She expressed that she began yelling which pulled in the policemen who now made up for lost time with them and captured them.
Raji said, "While we were battling, the police watch van came and I yelled; so the policemen overwhelmed us and obstructed the vehicle with their watch van. I express gratitude toward God that there was slight movement blockage that day. The policemen quickly captured the suspects."
In the mean time, Okasanmi said that the order had additionally captured a few culprits suspected to be included in the assembling of fake number plates.
Okasanmi said that the guilty parties had been producing Lagos number plates when they were found.
"We initially found that taking of vehicles with Lagos enrollment numbers had been on the high side in the state. It was over the span of our examination that we found the fake number plates,"he said.
Source: PunchNg
