Friday, March 29, 2024

Undergraduate, others arrested for armed robbery, theft of church bus

A 300 level student of the Osun State University, Osogbo, Amao Adekunle, has been arrested by the police in the state over unlawful possession of a gun and other dangerous weapons.
Adekunle was paraded alongside one Adeshina Olanrewaju, said to be an undergraduate in the Department of Mathematics of the institution. The two students were said to have also been caught with some money in Naira and Dollar currencies. 
 
Denying the allegations that he had been part of criminals, who had been dispossessing people of their belongings, the undergraduate explained that he only accompanied Olanrewaju to the hotel where they were arrested. 
Crying profusely, Adekunle told our correspondent, “I don’t know anything about the gun, cutlass and even money. Olarewaju is just area brother to me. Since my mum died in 2015, I have been in school. On that day, this brother called me and asked me to follow him to his in-law’s house. 
 
“We were on our way when someone called him and asked him to come to a hotel; it was at that place we got arrested. Please, help me, my career is ruined. I am innocent of this crime.”
Asked if Adekunle was innocent as he claimed, Olanrewaju  said, “Yes, he doesn’t know anything about these things and I have told the police. He only followed me to that hotel. I own the gun, it has been with me since 2014 and I use it to rob people.”
Another group paraded was a ten-man gang of armed robbers led by Kehinde Ogunyinka, who specialised in dispossessing people of their vehicles. 
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye, said six vehicles were recovered from the gang. 
He explained that the gang would visit their victims at their residences and cart away their vehicles. Adeoye said a particular vehicle was repainted and used for commercial purposes by the gang leader, Ogunyinka. 
 
Adeoye disclosed that the church bus was rebranded, “State of Osun” was inscribed on it and was being used for commercial transportation by the gang leader.
In a chat with our Correspondent, Ogunyinka, however, disclosed he regretted all his actions, urging youths to shun crime. 

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