Police arrest hoodlums, political thugs, robbers in Osun

The Osun State Police Command has announced the apprehension of immoderate suspected hoodlums and governmental thugs successful Osogbo, the authorities capital.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Ibrahim Gotan, who made this known during a property league on Tuesday at the constabulary headquarters, Osogbo, said the arrests formed portion of caller operational successes recorded by the bid successful its efforts to support instrumentality and bid crossed the state.

Represented by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Abiodun Ojelabi, the constabulary commissioner recalled that connected Monday, July 20, 2026, a protestation by a faction of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, erupted aft members alleged that their vehicles were prevented from entering a centrifugal parkland by a rival faction, starring to clashes successful Osogbo.

He said officers responded promptly to the disturbance and restored normalcy earlier different information incidental was reported aboriginal the aforesaid time astatine Oke-Ijetu country of Osogbo.

The commissioner said a distress telephone received astatine astir 5:30 p.m. indicated that a radical of equipped hoodlums were shooting sporadically successful the area. Personnel of the Anti-Robbery and Violent Crime Response Unit were instantly deployed to the scene.

“The suspected hoodlums, believed to beryllium members of a faction linked to 1 Wakili Alowonle, allegedly op...