Graduate, four others nabbed for stealing inverters

Olufemi Atoyebi

A graduate of an institution in Ibadan, Gbenga Abayomi (24), and four other accomplices have been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for stealing inverters and industrial batteries from telecommunication outfits’ transmitters in Oke-Ogun area of the state.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abiodun Odude, said Abayomi and his gang were apprehended on July 7 after attacking the companies’ security guards and stealing the items.

He said, “The armed hoodlums invaded some telecommunication premises in Tede, Speteri, Igboho, Komi and Ogboro with guns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons and attacked security guards before carting away various inverters and other equipment belonging to the companies. Following a distress call, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the command responded and launched a manhunt for the hoodlums.”

According to Odude, three suspects were arrested in Ago-Are-Sabe Road, which led to the arrest of other suspects. Abayomi’s accomplices are Ayilara Ahmed (21), Bamimore Nurideen (32), Adedokun Opeyemi (19) and Bakare Farouk (19). The commissioner added that a locally made pistol, 48 inverters, a Peugeot 505 with number plate ET 246 APP, a cutlass and three iron cutters were recovered from them.

Abayomi told journalists that he obtained an ordinary national diploma in public administration from an institution in Ibadan and that he had been involved in another robbery before he was caught. He said it was his second operation and that someone gave him the gun.

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Graduate, four others nabbed for stealing inverters

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