The Ogun State-owned Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps (So-Safe Corps) on Friday, 25th November 2022, arrested a man for hijacking a Bajaj motorcycle from a cyclist, who took him on his motorcycle to Agobaba, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun.
According to a press statement issued from the Office of the State Commander of the agency, Commander (Dr) Soji Ganzallo, through the office of the Director of Information and Public Relations of the agency, Assistant Commander, Moruf Yusuf, the robbery suspect, Shakiru Bello, 29, a bricklayer, was arrested by the So-Safe Corps Divisional Command under the Superintendent of Corps Fatimoh Idris.
The corps commander, Ganzallo said that during the preliminary investigation, the suspect confessed that he stopped the cyclist from taking him as a passenger to Agobaba Area on a fateful day, but that his real motive was to snatch the motorcycle from him.
Ganzallo further said that the suspect allegedly directed the motorcyclist to take him towards a new site which happened to be his friend’s house.
On getting there, he picked a shovel kept by the side of the building and hit it on the cyclist’s head, with the intention to kill him and then make away with the motorcycle.
Ganzallo further revealed that the victim, Mr Abel, pretended as if he was dead. The victim later managed to contact the So-Safe office for help so that the suspect would not go unpunished.
Ganzallo, who felt so bad about this ugly incident, said that the officers of the Security Agency sprang into action and the culprit was arrested alive and the motorbike was recovered.
The suspect and the exhibit – Bajaj motorcycle – had been transferred to the Nigeria Police, Owode-Egbado Division for further investigation and prosecution.
