The Ogun State Police Command conducted a press briefing on Tuesday, unveiling three police officers who underwent an orderly room trial for their alleged participation in armed robbery in Ijebu-Ode. Subsequently, the officers were dismissed from their positions and are set to face court charges……CONTINUE READING....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

The dismissed officers include Inspector Taiwo Kolawole (Force Number AP/No 341113), Inspector John Ogbe (Force Number AP/No 309292), and Corporal Idowu Sunday (Force Number 513707). All three were previously stationed at Ijebu-Ife in the Ijebu East Local Government Area of the state.

Simultaneously, the police paraded Abdul-Azeez Ibrahim, a Library and Information Science student of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, suspected to be a Black Axe cultist. Ibrahim is linked to a series of kidnapping and armed robbery incidents in and around Ijebu Ode and its surroundings. He was apprehended on Saturday, January 27, in Imaweje Ijebu, Odogbolu Local Government Area, with seven assorted guns and charms allegedly used for criminal activities.

Commissioner of Police Abiodun Alamutu shared these developments during the press briefing at the Eleweran headquarters in Abeokuta. Regarding the dismissal of the three police officers, Alamutu disclosed that on January 12, Kashimao Emmanuel of Tai Solarin University of Education reported an incident where the officers accosted him while driving, forcing him to transfer funds to an Opay account (Account No. 9097829766).

Alamutu elaborated, “On 12/01/2024, at about 0845hrs, one Kashimao Emmanuel ‘m’ of TASUED Ijebu-Ode, reported at the station that while he was driving in his Toyota Venza car, with Reg No. LSD 813 EX brown in colour, that he came across a gang of four armed men and one of them was putting on a police round neck camouflage, while three others were on mufti. They demanded his phone, which he calmly declined. In the process, one of them fired a shot into the air, and that was when he complied.”