In a statement released on Tuesday by the police public relations officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, it was revealed that the police arrested 10 other suspects in several highway robbery cases within the same time frame.
“The efforts of the Ogun State Police Command to rid the highways of robbers have yielded results. The command, within a week, has gunned down seven robbers who were caught in the act of robbing road users and engaging the police in gun duels. We arrested 10 suspects who have been linked with various robbery cases along the Lagos-Ibadan and Lagos-Ijebu Ode-Benin expressways,” he said.
“The CP has ordered all DPOs whose areas of jurisdiction cover the expressway, to relocate their offices to the highways and personally lead their patrol teams. With this trend of adequate patrol and monitoring, the command will definitely accord necessary and required security to all road users along the major highways in Ogun State.”
It was also revealed that the State Commissioner of Police, Okoye Ikemefuna, has divided the expressway into tranches of four kilometres each for easy monitoring and patrolling.