Police Arrest OPC Leader, 22 Others For Robbery

The police in Ogun State have arrested a coordinator of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), Segun Olaojo, for alleged armed robbery and illegal possession of firearm.

The state Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu, paraded the suspect and 22 others Friday at the police headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

Iliyasu also displayed 28 assorted guns, including pump action, double barrel, single barrel, locally-made and pistols, recovered from suspected bandits.

He said Olaojo, who is the OPC coordinator in Ita Oluwo area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, was specifically nabbed with one pump action gun, a Beretta pistol and nine live cartridges.

The commissioner explained that operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) stormed the hideout ‎of suspected armed robbers terrorising Ogijo and its environs in Sagamu and arrested Olaojo in the process.

But speaking with New Telegraph, Olaojo claimed that the‎ pump action gun was given to him by the community to enhance vigilance service and security in the area.

The suspect, 54, added that he retrieved the Beretta pistol from a thief allegedly shot dead by the police over 10 years ago during a joint operation between vigilance men and the police.