The Ondo State Police Command on Thursday arrested three men in Akure for their alleged involvement in robbery.
The suspects were said to have escaped from a prison in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, during the November 2014 jail break.
Banji Adedayo, 40; Tope Daramola, 45; and Segun Akinseye, 38, according to the State Police Commissioner, Isaac Eke, were among the gang that had been terrorising the people of Ondo State in the recent times.
Parading the suspects at the police command headquarters in Alagbaka, Akure, the commissioner explained that the trio, with two other men, allegedly snatched a Toyota Camry and some mobile phones from one Komolafe Remidayo in Ondo Road, Akure.
He said the Special Anti Robbery Squad, acting on a tip-off, swung into action and arrested the suspects.
Eke added that effort was in top gear to arrest the fleeing members of the gang and also recover the earlier snatched vehicle.
One of the suspects, Adedayo, however denied being a member of the robbery gang, admitting that he escaped during the jail break in Ado Ekiki.
Adedayo, who said he was jailed over robbery, said, “It is true I escaped from the prison and since then, I have stopped robbery and never involved in bus snatching.
“I was smoking my Indian hemp with my friends at one corner in Akure when the policemen struck and arrested all of us.”
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