A taxi driver identified as Kehinde Ogunlate and some of his accomplices has been arrested for allegedly robbing passengers of their money, phones and other items in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The So-Safe Corps in Ogun State in a statement by the spokesman, Moruf Yusuf, said officers of the Corps on routine patrol on Friday acting on intelligence, gathered that “one of the drivers who has been robbing passengers with his gang members was sighted in an area in Abeokuta.”
He revealed that the men of the corps were charged to go after them and they swung into action immediately, noting that “they traced the culprits and discovered that they had just robbed some passengers of their belongings.”
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The Corps spokesman said Kehinde Ogunlate and one Yemi Ayoola usually “use the taxi to rob passengers.”
According to him, the suspects would collect their phones and other items, and then hand over to Kehinde to sell to one Olonade Dele.
According to him, “the one-chance robber” and the rest of the suspected gang members initially escaped arrest, but were later apprehended at Itoko, Ita-Morin and Adedotun areas of the State capital.
"They include: Taoreed Adeosun, his wife, Funmilayo Adeosun, Ayoola Yemi, Kehinde Ogunlate and Dele Olonade.
“The apprehended suspects confessed that robbing passengers is their profession and after any successful operation, they drive the victims to a safer place for easy escape of their team", he said.
“They also established that Funmilayo Adeosun picked one of the stolen phones from her husband, Taoreed and sold it to an untraceable buyer,” he explained.
The taxi, 16 memory cards and mobile phones were among the items recovered by the corps.
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