Men of the So-Safe Corps in Ogun State have arrested two “notorious motorbike snatchers.”
In a press statement by the spokesman of the corps, Moruf Yusuf, the Commander of the corps, Soji Ganzallo, said that at about 11am on June 30, 2023, one Mr Lawal Kazeem reported that his motorbike, marked JBD 933 VZ, was stolen from his farmland in Abapawa, Ijebu-Ode LGA.
Ganzallo noted that on July 19, two men, Okoro Ogudu, aka Chi Boy (25), and Okechukwu Eze (28), both residents of Ibadan, Oyo State, were sighted that day on the spot where the stolen motorbike was parked.
He further said that the suspects returned to the same spot to steal another bike, noting that that was where workers on the farm usually parked their bikes.
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The statement reads in part: “One of the suspects brought out a cutlass and the man who saw them ran for his life. The So-Safe office in Itoro was contacted to save the victim and the officers swung into action.”
“As a result, the Ijebu-Ode command’s team led by Marcus Ayankoya responded and arrested the suspects.
“During preliminary investigation the victim was able to recognise the suspects as the same people who ran away from the spot of the theft in the month of June. Also, the clothes put on by one of the suspects was kept under the seat of the stolen motorbike.”
He added that two litres of petrol, two cutlasses, mechanical tools, one motorbike key, baby and adult clothes were recovered from the suspects.
He added that the suspects and the items recovered had been handed over to the police in Omu.
