By Evelyn Usman

POlICEMEN attached to Joint Boarder Patrol, Ilaro, Ogun State have arrested seven suspected members of a robbery gang, among them a female, and recovered three locally -made pistols and eleven cartridges from them.

The robbery suspects, as gathered, were on their way to a location they intended to carry out an operation when two suspected members of the gang were arrested.

Police IG

Spokesman for the Command, Mr Olumuyiwa Adejobi told Crime Alert that the duo of Saheed Idowu and Clement Falolu, were arrested on a motorcycle recently by the Joint Border Patrol policemen. They were reportedly subjected to a search where three locally-made single barrel guns and cartridges were recovered inside a bag they were carrying.

Adejobi said the suspects “confessed to series of armed robbery incidents in Ilaro and Oja-Odan and its environs,” adding that their confessional statements later led to the arrest of five other suspected members of their gang identified as Ishola Saidat, Sesan Ayinla, Niniola Kamoru, Ogundipe Kehinde and Ezekiel Ishola .