Identical twins were among robbery suspects arrested by the police in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Wednesday.

While parading the suspects, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Baba Adisa Bolanta, said the gang had confessed to being responsible for most of the robbery incidents in Idi-Osan-Mosfala .

According to the police, on July 31, one of the twins, Akeem Yisau (aka Olobo), came to a street at Mosfala area, after visiting hours to ask for a police corporal.

“When the police corporal was called and he denied knowing the person, he asked to talk to him on phone. While talking to him, the suspect mentioned another person whom the corporal also called to confirm. The person, who is an Army officer, also denied knowing him, but suggested that he could be one of the people that assisted him in building his house,” the Commissioner of Police explained further.

Since neither of the two people he mentioned could identify him, the night guards took him to the Ogbere police station.

The following morning, some members of the suspect’s gang came to attack the Vice Chairman of the landlord association, Jelili Durojaye Ramoni, who led the guards.

He was said to have been shot and severely wounded. He later died.

The gang returned to ask for the police corporal’s and army officer’s house.

Meaning business

Mr. Bolanta told journalists that each time they came, they shot sporadically in the air to let the residents know that they meant business.

He added that this prompted the corporal to alert the police headquarters, where it was ordered that the detained suspect’s matter be transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the state Crime Investigation Division (CID).

“On interrogation in the night, the suspect led us to the house of the leader. We did not meet the leaders their, as the wife said he was out in the night. But while the policemen were returning, they met them on the road where the gang opened fire on the police. In the process, one of them was killed and others were injured,” said Mr. Bolanta.

The police said the gang comprises of nine members, besides one that was killed, seven were arrested, while one is still at large.

The other six arrested yesterday were Adegbo Arise, Olamilekan Ayoola, Nojeem Okunade(aka Tanfeku), Abioye Yinka, Kehinde Oluwole and Taye Oluwole.

Mr. Bolanta said the gang confessed that they were searching for the police corporal and army officer, to kill them as a way of ensuring smooth operations within the neighbourhood.

Twin brothers in armed robbery, products of failed family!

Shame on them and their parents. These are the kinds of twins people will never want to have while one will clamour for P Square-like twins.

Lies they must be Bini, Warri or Ibo boys using our name to rob people.

olabukola:

Lies they must be Bini, Warri or Ibo boys using our name to rob people.

na so una brain small reach. . .maybe d dpo is an igbo man. . .shioooooooor

Twins ke. . . Na wa o

look at the blood on the car and on the people. . . what a brutal system

Sharon_f:

look at the blood on the car and on the people. . . what a brutal system

u know how many people dem don brutalise? atleast theirs is "brutal" and not "brutalise"

Damn, , Nigeria is Scary

@Sharon_f
I agree with you, , what a brutal system

olabukola:

Lies they must be Bini, Warri or Ibo boys using our name to rob people.

shame on you. . . . .

Faithfully following the footsteps of a certain self-confessed Igbo-hating dude.

Lies they must be Bini, Warri or Ibo boys using our name to rob people.

Faithfully following the shameful footsteps of a certain self-confessed Igbo-hating dude, who prowls Nairaland, ethnicising everything.

Shame

OH MY GOSH!!! What is with all the blood . . .

This is the reason

Kobojunkie:

OH MY GOSH!!! What is with all the blood . . .

Sharon_f:

look at the blood on the car and on the people. . . what a brutal system

folanusi:

Damn, , Nigeria is Scary
@Sharon_f
I agree with you, , what a brutal system

I'm trying to understand all your posts. . . Is it the fact that the blood wasn't cleaned up or you know of a better way of shooting armed robbers without causing them to bleed

This is what the many years of cheating the Yorubas have lead to. And you think this gang and many more can not start a civil war. Only a fool1 assume otherwise.  They some time come with 100 men with guns and rob a street.

It can only get worst. Look they may end up kill many PDP members in Yorubaland. And You better start praying if Obasanjo scape alive. They may end up in killing him. The Yorubas are done with the PDP.

@ becomrich who cheated the yorubas, when yorubas had option to opt out of the country in 1966 , 1976 , 1993 , 1999 and 2003 , 2007 what did they do ,they chickened out,

" a stitch in time saves nine"

@ olabukola am really not suprised, very typical of a hyprocrite and a backstabber.

@ becomrich who cheated the yorubas, when yorubas had option to opt out of the country in 1966 , 1976 , 1993 , 1999 and 2003 , 2007 what did they do ,they chickened out,

" a stitch in time saves nine"
       
@ olabukola am really not suprised, very typical of a hyprocrite and a backstabber.

Sharon_f:

look at the blood on the car and on the people. . . what a brutal system

Kobojunkie:

OH MY GOSH!!! What is with all the blood . . .

Damn! Like both of you crept into my brain. . . . .

Wow somebody is shedding his tribalistic foreskin. Yah! Look at all the blood. Men its so sad.soo saad.