Men of Osun State Police Command have arrested three suspects for allegedly robbing students of the Federal Polytechnic Ede in their hostel.
The suspects said they are based in Lagos and that the girlfriend of one of them who resides in Ede invited them to the town for the operation.
The suspects include Azeez Mustapha, 26, Ahmed Yusuf, 25, and Eniola Akintunde, 23.
Mustafa and Yusuf were arrested after robbing three hostels at the Federal Polytechnic, Ede.
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The suspects, who dispossessed the students of thirty different brands of cell phones worth millions of naira, confessed that Eniola, a resident of Ede, is the girlfriend of one of them who escaped arrest.
They said that the lady invited them to Ede to rob the students but the lady denied knowledge of the robbery.
The Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Yemisi Opalola, speaking on behalf of the Commissioner of Police in the state, Kehinde Longe, said the suspects would face the full wrath of the law.
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