By Michael Adesanya/Abeokuta
The Ogun State Police Command on Tuesday paraded three suspects who allegedly murdered one Ahmed Obisanwo, a 200-level student of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye.
They are Idowu Ayodele, 53, Segun Ogunsanwo, 53, and Akeem Salisu, 55.
While briefing newsmen at the police command headquarters, Eleweran, the Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, said the suspects had invaded a hotel in Ijebu-Igbo area of the State on the 8th of August this year, disposessing people of their valuables and seizing two young men.
He said one of the suspects escaped from the suspected criminals, while one of them remained with them.
The Police boss said “These suspects went into a hotel and told everyone to lie down, disposessing them of their valuables. They seized two people and didn’t return them. After a while, one of them came back and said he had escaped. When we asked him about the second person he was abducted with, he said he was dead. It is six weeks today, that person has not returned.
“There was a complaint and we worked on that which led to the arrest of these people and the recovery of these weapons. On further interrogation, they said the other person that was taken had been killed. They said he had been thrown into a river. We asked them to indetify the river so we can go there and conduct a search and recover his remains.
“One of them claims to be a member of safe corps but the boss has outrightly denied that. One of the weapons is painted in police color. They will be made to face the full wrath of the law,” he assured.
The command recovered weapons, including four guns, from the suspects who claim to be part of a local community security group.
But one of the suspects, Akeem Salisu who spoke with newsmen denied killing Obisanwo. He said the group were commissioned by the community to rid it of cultists and thugs.
Salisu added that his group usually arrest cultists and thugs in the community and drop them at the Police Station in order to ensure peace and security in the area.