Gbenga Mattews popularly known as Orimeji (two heads),
a notorious robber in Ekiti state was yesterday, killed during an early
morning robbery incident in Akodi-edemo community in Odo-ado area of
Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state.
Mr.
Alberto Adeyemi, Police public relations officer (PPRO), said Orimeji
met his waterloo when he and his gang of five robbers dared the officers
of the Special anti-robbery Squad (SARS) and shot sporadically at them,
Daily Times reports.
Adeyemi said: “Early this morning (Thursday. March 12 ) the Officer in Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) got a tip that some robbers were robbing in Akodi Edemo community, so he swung into action with his men and got to the area and met about five robbers in operation and the robbers opened fire on the SARS team but the team did their best to arrest them alive.
“Two of the officials of our SARS team were wounded in the gun battle. Orimeji jumped down from the house and was trying to reload his raffle and shoot the SARS men, it was at that point that our men were left with no choice than to shoot him.
” The other members of the robbery gang had escaped with bullet wounds. We are appealing to members of the public and the hospitals, if they see anybody with bullet wounds, they should not move close to them but call the nearest police station. So that we can come and arrest them.
“The leader of the gang that was shot dead is Gbenga Mattew, alias Orimeji, he is a very notorious armed robber with a track record of armed robbery of about 12 years. We have arrested him on many occasions and charged him to court. He was among the escapees in the last prison break in Ekiti, they call him Orimeji Omo Bose.
” We understand that Ekiti has three notoriuos armed robbery gangs, so we have smashed one by the killing of Orimeji. We have intensified efforts to get the other two. We have already mapped out strategies to get them and I cannot disclose such strategies to you here. But I can tell you that in the next two days, we will have another breakthrough that would be bigger than this.
“About N120,000 and three U.S Dollars were recovered from him. His raffle, a locally made one, is also there with him.
“I am sure the residents of the Akodi edemo area would tell you that they have never seen the kind of massive gun fight between the police and the robbers that occurred around 3:15am early this morning in the area. “
It will be recalled that police in Lagos State arrested an armed robbery suspect whose gang has been noted as being notorious and operating in Lagos State,. The robber claims that the police used Juju to apprehend him.
Police officials paroling
Adeyemi said: “Early this morning (Thursday. March 12 ) the Officer in Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) got a tip that some robbers were robbing in Akodi Edemo community, so he swung into action with his men and got to the area and met about five robbers in operation and the robbers opened fire on the SARS team but the team did their best to arrest them alive.
“Two of the officials of our SARS team were wounded in the gun battle. Orimeji jumped down from the house and was trying to reload his raffle and shoot the SARS men, it was at that point that our men were left with no choice than to shoot him.
” The other members of the robbery gang had escaped with bullet wounds. We are appealing to members of the public and the hospitals, if they see anybody with bullet wounds, they should not move close to them but call the nearest police station. So that we can come and arrest them.
“The leader of the gang that was shot dead is Gbenga Mattew, alias Orimeji, he is a very notorious armed robber with a track record of armed robbery of about 12 years. We have arrested him on many occasions and charged him to court. He was among the escapees in the last prison break in Ekiti, they call him Orimeji Omo Bose.
” We understand that Ekiti has three notoriuos armed robbery gangs, so we have smashed one by the killing of Orimeji. We have intensified efforts to get the other two. We have already mapped out strategies to get them and I cannot disclose such strategies to you here. But I can tell you that in the next two days, we will have another breakthrough that would be bigger than this.
“About N120,000 and three U.S Dollars were recovered from him. His raffle, a locally made one, is also there with him.
“I am sure the residents of the Akodi edemo area would tell you that they have never seen the kind of massive gun fight between the police and the robbers that occurred around 3:15am early this morning in the area. “
It will be recalled that police in Lagos State arrested an armed robbery suspect whose gang has been noted as being notorious and operating in Lagos State,. The robber claims that the police used Juju to apprehend him.
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