Daredevil Robbers Met Their Waterloo In Fierce Shoot-out With Police In Osun

Three suspected armed robbers met their Waterloo in Osogbo, Osun State, as they died after sustaining bullet wounds during a shoot-out with the operatives of Special-Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) in the early hours of Friday. It was gathered that the suspects, who came in an unregistered Lexus car for a robbery operation, went to Oke Baale area of Osogbo, opposite Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC), to attack the residents at about 2.00 a.m.
Some of the residents, it was learnt, sent a distress call to the officer in charge of SARS in Osun State Police Command, DSP Adekunle Omoyele, and he was said to have led a team of operatives to the scene immediately.

On getting to the scene, the policemen learnt that the armed robbers had robbed one Alhaja Ganiyat Kolapo of her personal belongings while the hoodlums also went away with her Toyota Camry car with registration number LND 847 AJ.

Omoyele and his team reportedly chased the armed robbers towards Ibokun road. The robbers reportedly abandoned the Toyota Camry and fled into the bush. The SARS men were said to have started combing a nearby bush when they noticed an oncoming bus followed by a car which model was later discovered to be Lexus.

A police source who craved anonymity said that as SARS operatives waved the bus driver to a stop, the driver of the Lexus car made an attempt to overtake the bus and fired sporadically at the police in order to escape.

Undeterred, the policemen pursued the hoodlums towards Ibokun road and got close to them at a spot close to Egbeda Village where the hoodlums reportedly stopped and engaged the SARS operatives in a gun battle, as a result of which three of them sustained bullet wounds and died.

Saturday Tribune learnt that the Toyota Camry belonging to their victim and the unregistered Lexus for the robbery were recovered by the police. One of them was said to have escaped with bullet wounds and arms used by the robbers.

When the Lexus was searched, it was gathered that a laptop, digger, knife, charms, assorted phones, three ATM cards, one cut-to-size double barrel gun, seven live cartridges, five expended cartridge shells, and some rough naira notes totaling about N36,000, as well as the driver’s licence belonging to their victim were recovered. The victim was said to have identified the corpses as those of the hoodlums who came to rob her.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in Osun State Police Command, DSP Folasade Odoro, confirmed the incident, saying that the corpses had been deposited at the State Hospital Osogbo mortuary for autopsy. She added that efforts were on to get the fleeing hoodlums.

Source: Nigerian Tribune