Behold The Robbery Gang Who Steal, Rape & Kill In Oyo State

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Six armed robbers, who specialised in raping
and killing their victims were on Thursday
arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in
Ogbomoso after they were traced through a
mobile telephone they stole from one of their
victims.

Commissioner of Police in the state,
Mohammed Katsina, said while parading the
robbers that one of them died during a gun
duel with the police while another was
seriously injured.

Until their arrest, the robbers were said to be
living in different cities and only came
together when they wanted to go for
operations. Katsina said investigation took his
men to Ijebu-Ode, Ibadan, Ogbomoso and Oyo
where the robbers were picked up.
Katsina explained that, “The group had been
terrorising Oyo and Ogbomoso for a long
time.

On one occasion, they robbed a house
and gang-raped two women. While escaping
with their loot after an operation on May, 28,
2015, they shot a passer-by. The gunshot
alerted my men and they acted quickly.

Further investigation led us to Ijebu-Ode
where the leader of the gang was caught.

“His wife was in possession of the mobile
telephone that led us to him. He cooperated
with us and led us to other gang members. In
their hide out in Ogbomoso, they opened fire
on the police, leading to a gun duel. At the
end, two of them were injured and one died
in hospital.

 We must thank the public for
their cooperation and appeal to them to
volunteer information when they notice
unusual movement of bad people in their
community.”

A prominent member of the gang, Fatai
Balogun(28), who was traced to Ijebu-Ode,
alleged that the member that was killed
during the gun battle with the police raped
and killed their victims.

He said, “I live in Ibiade in Ijebu Waterside
and I sold fairly used imported clothes in
Ijebu-Ode before I joined the robbery gang
about a year ago.

I was introduced to the
gang by Jankaa who was killed in an
operation in Mile 12 area of Lagos State. I
have participated in seven robbery operations
in Ogbomoso and Oyo town.

“I have never raped any of our female
victims. One of us, Segun, was fond of raping
our victims. He was the one that was killed
when police came to arrest us. When we
robbed a Ghanaian sometimes ago, we also
killed his wife. Segun said that the woman
knew him so he shot her.”

Balogun added that the gang started by
stealing petty valuables before stealing a gun
with which they began armed robbery
operation, raping and killing.

“We started by stealing mobile telephones and
small valuables after cutting window nets to
gain access. But one day, we were coming
from an operation when we saw a night
guard sleeping. We stole his double barrel
gun.

“The last operation was done in Oyo where
we stole money, mobile telephones and
computers in a house. The phone was used to
track us. I was in Ijebu when the police came
to my house, I knew there was no way out so
I cooperated with them,” he added.

One of the victims, who was raped in their
last operation, said they entered through the
window and forcibly took money from her
husband who is a car dealer.

“They later came to my room and took money
from me after beating me. One of them also
raped me. My husband alerted the police but
they escaped,” she said.

Source: Punch

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