EWEKORO– Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected herdsmen on the 9th of September, 2020 on allegation of armed robbery and rape.
The suspects, Abu Adamu and Mohammadu Aliyu were arrested following a distress call received by the police at the Ewekoro Divisional Headquarters.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations officer (PPRO) stated in a press release that the armed men suspected to be herdsmen invaded a farm settlement at Afowowa Gbelu village in Ewekoro local government area of the state at about 1am, attacking a family living in the farm settlement.
The suspects ransacked the house of one Aminat Okeshola, dispossessed the family of cash sum of One Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira (N140,000) after which they took a sixteen years old daughter of the family to the cassava plantation where they took turns to forcefully have sex with her.
On the strength of the distress call, policemen from Ewekoro division swiftly moved to the scene, combed the entire area and succeeded in arresting two of the suspects who were hiding in the nearby bush on sighting the policemen, while the third one escaped. The two arrested suspects were immediately identified by the victims.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the herdsmen have always been passing through the farm settlement with their cattle in day time before they came back to strike on the fateful day.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun has ordered a manhunt for the fleeing member of the gang, he also directed the immediate transfer of the case to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation and prosecution.
The CP therefore warned that anybody who hid under any guise to commit crime will be dealt with in the most decisive manner as no criminal will be allowed to fester in the state.
