Police foil highway robbery in Oyo, arrest suspect, recover diesel tanker

Operatives of the Oyo State Police Command person foiled a road robbery and arrested a fishy during a information cognition on the Ogbomoso Ilorin Expressway.

The improvement was disclosed successful a connection issued connected Monday by the command’s spokesperson, Ayanlade Olayinka.

According to the police, the incidental occurred adjacent Egbeda Village on the way erstwhile a associated patrol squad comprising constabulary operatives and section vigilantes encountered suspected robbers who had reportedly blocked the road.

The attackers were said to person stopped a tanker loaded with diesel and driven by Surajudeen Sulaiman, dispossessing the operator and his assistants of their belongings.

Police said a weapon conflict followed arsenic the suspects attempted to flee, starring to the apprehension of 1 of them, identified arsenic Dere Yahaya aged 32, portion different members of the radical escaped into adjacent bushes with suspected gunshot injuries.

Security operatives subsequently launched a hunt cognition successful the surrounding country arsenic efforts continued to way down the fleeing suspects.

The Commissioner of Police successful the state, Femi...