Photo: Ondo Police Parades Corpses Of Four Robbery Suspects, 40 Others

                           
Men of the Ondo State Police Command today paraded corpses of suspected armed robbers and 40 other criminals arrested for different offences.

Parading the suspects, the State Commissioner of Police, Isaac Eke, said the four deceased robbers lost their lives after his men gave the criminals a hot chase which led to a fatal accident around 4.am this morning.

Eke added that the robbers lost control of their vehicle with Reg No. 11/260FG and crashed it on the fence of a Church in Akure, the state capital.

The Commissioner said the police took to action when the criminals opened fire on his men who were on patrol along Idanre road, stressing that they snatched and destroyed a police pump action gun.
One of the victims of the deceased robbers, Olumide Micheal, who narrated his experience, said he and his brother were on their way to Port Harcourt when they were kidnapped by the criminals who disguised as security operatives.

According to him, “those dead criminals pretended to us that they were security operatives and that we were driving a tainted car, vowing to take us to the nearest police station. They took over my brother’s car and drove toward Ifon in Ose local government area of Ondo State. When we got to Ifon, we were expecting them to drive us straight to the station because as at that time, they had also apprehended five other people but they passed the front of the station and drove straight to a forest.

“When we got to the place, they brought out their guns and asked my brother how much he had in his bank account and if he was with his ATM card. My brother confessed that he had about N500,000 in his account. They immediately changed the plate numbers of my brothers car with others vehicles they had snatched to a Police and Federal Government plate numbers. They drove toward Owo road through the forest and when we got to an unknown place, they called one man on phone that they we be going for an operation and that they would need police uniform.

“Before going for the operation around 4.a.m this morning, they tied five of us to a tree, while two of us where taken away by one of them to an unknown place. We were rescued by farmers who were passing the route to the farm as we were shouting on top of our voices.

“We ran to a nearby police station to report the incident and the D.P.O called us later that he had been informed that some suspected criminals had been arrested. But getting to the Police Command, we discovered that they were all dead and we identified them.”

The Police Commissioner disclosed that two AK 47 rifles with No. 26182 belonging to Okuta-Elerinla Division carted away from them by the dead criminals were recovered.

Others items were N160,000, 126 live ammunitions, three magazines, 21 handsets, two numbers plates (Edo State), substances suspected to be dynamite and charms.

Also, six additional suspected robbers, 32 cultists, and two people arrested with human skull were paraded. CULLED