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4 arrested for killing of police officer

The four suspects were paraded before newsmen after they were arrested for the killing of a police officer in Ibadan.

Four suspects, Surajudeen Dauda, Ojo Olawale,Lukman Raimi, and Adams Yinus, have been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for the killing of a police officer in Agugu, Ibadan.

While parading the suspects on Monday, November 24, Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Ilobanefor, told newsmen that on Thursday, September 4, the robbers shot and killed the police officer at his duty post before making away with his AK-47 rifle.

The suspects reportedly use the same rifle to rob a farm around the challenge area of Ibadan, injuring the Managing Director and seven customers on the premises and shooting one the victims fatally in the eye. They made away with with huge amounts of money and mobile phones during the robbery.

Ilobanefor told newsmen that the suspects have confessed and admitted that they carried out the alleged crimes and added that a Nissan Micra with number plate AKD 358 SM, one AK 47 rifle, one pump action rifle, one cut-to-size double-barrelled gun, a locally-made gun, a stainless raven arm pistol, two AK-47 magazines, charms, 14 live ammunition of AK-47 rifle, eight phones, axe, cutlass and marijuana were in the suspects’ possession when they were caught.

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