The suspects
Detectives from Ogun state police command said they have arrested four members of a syndicate who killed a POS operator, one Abiodun Odebunmi at Aparadija, Ota after collecting N4m from him and then set his corpse ablaze.
The suspects, Kehinde Saliu Jelili aka Oluomo, Abiodun Akinola, Johnson Fakeye and Jamiu Akinola were all allegedly said to be members of a deadly gang who specialized in robbing and killing POS and Uber operators.
According to statement from the Spokesman of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi on Thursday, the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Onipanu divisional headquarters on the 18th of April 2021, by one Aanu Salaudeen.
Aanu was said to have reported that, she was a POS attendant to one Abiodun Odebunmi a POS operator, and that her boss (Odebunmi) left his office at Aparadija the previous day, to meet a customer with a cash sum of N4m to be used for POS transaction.
She stated further that the said Abiodun Odebunmi had since not returned, and all call made to his line had not been going through.
Aanu explained that they had earlier done a transaction of 1.5 million naira with the previous day with the person who invited his boss and that it was the same person, who called his boss to meet him at Ojuoore for another POS transaction of N4m
The statement disclosed further that "upon the report, the policemen at Onipanu commenced investigation into the sudden disappearance of the man, their efforts paid off when the dead and burnt body of the victim was discovered in an uncompleted building at Arobieye area of Ota without the trace of his assailants.
"The case was transferred to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department on the order of the Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun, who mandated the homicide team to unravel the perpetrators of the dastardly act within the shortest possible period .
"The CSP Femi Olabode led homicide team, in compliance with the CP directive, embarked on technical and intelligence based investigation, which led them to Otun Ekiti in Ekiti state where the suspect was discovered to be hibernating.
"On getting to Ekiti, the suspect got wind of the presence of the detectives and quickly escaped to Offa in Kwara state. With determination to apprehend him, the team continued trailing him and they later got information that he was in Benin republic ,where he had gone to attend the court session of Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, and that he will soon be coming to Nigeria.
"Having gotten the information about the day he will be returning to Nigeria, the team laid ambush for him and got him arrested at the boundary between Ogun and Lagos state.
"On interrogation, Kehinde Salihu Jeili, who claimed to be a native of Apomu in Osun state confessed killing the victim. He confessed further that he deliberately lured the victim to Ota where he and his gang members were waiting for him with the money he was asked to bring, having transacted a 1.5 million naira business with him the previous day, and that they matcheted him to death after collecting the money from him.
"He stated further that they burnt the victim's body in order to cover their tracks.
He confessed further that their targeted victims were always Uber and POS Operators.
"According to him, one of them will pretend as passenger to the Uber driver, and will lure such driver to where his members were waiting, and as soon as he got to the place, the driver will be hacked to death and the car will be taken away to their receiver.
"Also, the suspect stated further that he and his gang attacked another victim of their criminal act one Idowu Ademiluyi at Itori area and snatched his Toyota Corolla car, having matcheted him to the point of death".
The police disclosed that the arrest of Kehinde Salihu later led the detectives to their reciever, Abiodun Akinola who is a standby buyer of every proceed of their crime.
The confessional statements of the Kehinde and Abiodun Akinola was said to have led to the arrest of the other two suspects, Johnson Fakeye and Akinola Jamiu at Atan Ota and Owode Yewa respectively.
One Toyota Camry, one Toyota Corolla and one Toyota Rav 4, whose owners had been gruesomely murdered were said to have been recovered from the gang.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun, who was full of praises for the team for the painstaking investigation which lasted for almost three months, directed that it is not over until the last member of the devilish gang was arrested.
He has therefore appealed to members of the public to always disclose their movement to at least one trusted person, whenever they have cause to keep appointment with an unknown person.
The CP also directed that the suspects be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.
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