Arms Recovered From Thugs Arrested In Oyo (PHOTOS) .

Weapons recovered from arrested political thugs in Oyo State

Officials of the Oyo state police command no doubt had a busy day on March 28, as the country’s presidential and House of Assembly elections were ongoing.

The state’s commissioner of police, Muhammadu Katsina, who spoke with The Nation correspondent on Monday, revealed that the command arrested twenty four suspected political thugs during the polls.

Weapons recovered from arrested political thugs in Oyo State

He made the disclosure while parading the suspects at the command headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan.

The Commissioner of Police listed the suspects to include members of a cult group, One Million Boys, in Mapo.

The police boss further explained that the suspects were arrested during the polls with weapons as they assaulted and injured people, some of whom have been admitted to hospital.

Katsina said the mayhem unleashed by the suspects attracted the attention of the police Special Force, which engaged the hoodlums in a gunfight.

 He said sixteen members of the gang were arrested with some arms recovered from them.

The suspects’ names were given as Patrick John, Olunloyo Ibrahim, Oluwafemi Adele, Adikpe Joseph, Olamide Abidemi, Ahmed Mukaila, Ramoni Saka, Ojo Adewale, Rasheed Afeez, Adeleke Shola, Adeleke Ibrahim, Adeleke Tunde, Adedapo Nurudeen, Dele Abu, Monsuru Olalekan and Akeem Monsuru.

The commissioner further hinted that the command’s pre-election efforts also led to the arrest of eight robbery suspects.

He said the suspects allegedly snatched a Toyota Camry from one Madam Oluwafolakemi Fabodede in Akure, Ondo state, adding that the robbers then moved to Oyo State to attack Joba Pharmacy and a filling station at Iroko on Oyo-Ibadan Road.

Katsina said the robbers were accosted by the Police Ambush Squad, which overpowered and arrested them after a gun battle.

It is understood that the leaders of the gang, whose names were given as Boluwaji Olawumi, John Isaac and Fagboyegun Wale, were among the escaped inmates from the Ekiti jailbreak of November 30, 2014.

The apprehended escapees were said to be awaiting trial for robbery and murder in Ekiti prison.

The police boss said one AK47 rifle stolen from a police officer with other weapons were recovered from the gang, while other weapons included 10 dane guns, one pump action, one cut-to-size, three single barrel guns as well as live cartridges.

The confessions of the apprehended political thugs are yet to be made official to the public in order to ascertain who hired them and also bring their sponsors to book.

Although it is not yet disclosed who the thugs were working for, it is imperative to mention that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate polled 528,620 votes, while Goodluck Jonathan, running on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, received 303,376 votes.