The police in Lagos have arrested one Ojo Adesola, a suspected land grabber, with four locally made rifles and 38 rounds of live cartridges at Alagbado area of Lagos.
Spokesperson of the state police command, Bala Elkana, who confirmed the arrest to newsmen, said the suspect was arrested on June 21 at about 7.00 a.m. following intelligence information.
“The surveillance patrol team from Alagbado police station arrested Ojo Adesola, 45. The suspect was flagged down by the surveillance team while conveying arms in a white bus along Amikanle area, Alagbado.
Four locally made rifles and 38 rounds of live cartridges were recovered from the bus. The suspect, an indigene of Ogun State, allegedly belongs to a gang of land grabbers and hired killers, terrorising Ogun and Lagos states. Members of the gang, it was learnt, act as warlords, waiting to be hired by anyone who can pay for their services to take over lands by force.
They engaged in series of killings and maiming of land owners. The suspect, the police added, claimed they were hired by someone to dislodge land owners at Epe and that he was on his way to pick the other members of the gang for the operation before he was arrested.
Elkana said that the police were on the trail of five other members of the gang who are still at large. In another development, the police are currently investigating the case of a 56-year man who was found dead with his mistress in his sitting room at his Ejigbo residence.
Elkana said one Akorede Balogun (female) of Area 2, Igbehindun Estate, New Heaven, Iba, reported at Iba police station that her husband, one Rasaki Balogun of who resided in Victory Estate, Ejigbo, was found dead with his mistress in his sitting room.
“A team of detectives led by the divisional police officer, Ejigbo, visited the scene. The corpses of the man and his mistress were found in the pool of their blood with the woman laying on a knife.
“The man is said to be living alone in the house, while his family lives in a different place. Identity of the mistress is yet to be established as he was said to have picked her about two days to the incident from unknown location.
“The crime scene was sealed off for forensic analysis, while the corpses were evacuated to hospital for autopsy. Homicide detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba, have taken over the case on the instruction of the state Commissioner of Police (CP), Zubairu Muazu.
