[size=14pt]Graduate, seven others arrested for armed robbery[/size]
By Sunday Aborisade, Akure
Thursday, 25 Aug 2011

A 24-year-old Mechanical Engineering graduate, Mr. Tayo Adegbola, was on Wednesday paraded in Akure along with seven others by the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly snatching “state-of-the-art vehicles” in Akure.


The Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Sani Mogaji told journalists that Adegbola usually hire the vehicles from car hire service operators and then call on his gang members to snatch them.


The other members of the gang are Vincent Agu, Monday Akam, Uche Nwainyinya, Silas Obiesie, Azuka Onyenweni, Izunna Ukwesi and Amaechi Chiekwe.


Vehicles recovered from them included three Honda Accord, an Audi A6, Honda CRV and a Nissan Primera.


While some have registration numbers others do not.


Mogaji said following a tip off, he placed policemen on the Red Alert until August 11 when Adegbola and his gang members were arrested.


Adegbola confirmed to journalists that he was the head of the gang and that he usually hire a vehicle for between N40, 000 and N50,000 from either Lagos or Ibadan “for official assignments.”
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