[b]FOR sometimes now, residents of Agbowo in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, have been under the seige of attack by suspected armed robber popularly called ‘Tombolo.’

Crime and Security gathered that this armed robber had always attacked unsuspecting residents of the area with cutlass, took their money and then pounced on their wives.

On several occasions, the suspect had successfully attacked innocent people and had sex with their wives.

It was further learnt that all efforts made by the residents to arrest the suspect had proved abortive.

Crime and Security learnt that anytime the residents might have put in place measures that could lead to his arrest, the suspect would not show up.

The residents believed that definitely their tormentor must be a resident of the area.

Consequently, the residents were said to have organised a night vigil among themselves with the aim of laying an ambush and probably arrest the attacker, but this method also failed.

Investigation in Agbowo by Crime and Security revealed that the attacker had a furniture shop in the area and that he knew most of his victims.

But he was arrested by the Oyo State Police Command recently. The day he was arrested, Crime and Security learnt many of the residents who had been attacked by the suspects beseiged the police headquarters to see the face of the man who had been using the covers of the night to reign terror on the area.

The victims were said to have openly cursed him and prayed that he would never return from his journey.

During his detention at the State Anti-Armed Robbery Squad, Crime and Security learnt that landlords and tenants of the area paid a visit to the suspect to further confirm the authencity of the arrest.

However, during his parade at Oyo State Police Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, the suspect, Oladimeji Olaitan, though he did not deny being a terror on the people of Agbowo, insisted that he was not a thief.

Speaking with Crime and Security, the suspect, who claimed to be an herbalist and carpenter, said he was surprised that after his arrest the people called him Tombolo.

He said he was at home when some visitors came to visit his landlord and he used his phone to call him but after some minutes, some policemen came in and handcuffed him.

According to him, since he did not have skeleton in his cupboard, he did not argue with the policemen.

On the charms found on him, he said he inherited them from his late father. “The Zain cloth is not medicinal. I am not Tombolo I, am an herbalist.

The suspect who was arrested with one Timilehin Gbemiro, said they were arrested following a bag they snatched from one woman.

Gbemiro, who claimed that Olaitan was a tenant in his father’s house, told Crime and Security that, they had snatched a bag from his father’s sister.

The Oyo State Police boss told Crime and Security the suspects were arrested based on series of complaints from residents of Agbowo area of incessant robbery attacks, leading the police to put in place, an anti-crime control strategy to curb the situation. According to him, the strategies paid off as three notorious criminals who had been massively identified as being the brains behind cases of robberies and rape in the area, were arrested.

He said that Olaitan Oladimeji and Timilehin Gbemiro [/b]


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