A 29-year-old lady, Chioma Okafor, was on Friday, November 25th, arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command while allegedly carrying out a robbery operation with a 19-year-old man, Nweke Joshua at the Adesan area of Mowe.
A statement released by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command, says the suspects were arrested following a distress call received at Mowe divisional headquarters about 9:30 pm, that armed robbers were robbing one Johnson Nwokoro, the owner of a provisional store at Safari Junction, Adesan.
”Upon the distress call, the DPO Mowe division, SP Folake Afeniforo, quickly mobilized the division’s patrol team and the so safe corps men to the scene where the two suspects were arrested.
On searching them, it was discovered that they came to rob the shop with toy guns which looked perfectly like original pistols.
On interrogation, the 19 years old Nweke Joshua, informed the police that it was Chioma Okafor who came up with the idea of carrying out the robbery operation in order for them to have some money.
He stated further that it was Chioma who bought the two toy guns and gave him one to use for the operation,” the statement read in part.
Oyeyemi added that the suspects went to the shop and pretended like customers, but brought out guns and ordered the shop owner to hand over all the money in his possession to them. He said luck ran out on them when police and so safe corps men arrived at the scene before they could escape.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation.
