More facts have emerged on the robbery incident in Iree, a community that hosts the Osun State Polytechnic in Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State, on Thursday, August 5, 2021, which claimed the life of a policeman.
The robbers killed a police special constabulary identified as Dauda Jelili during an attack on a police station located in-between the two attacked banks.
It was gathered that the operation, which started around 3:50 p.m., lasted for 15 minutes with the robbers shattering the banks’ doors with explosives.
Olawale Olokode, the Osun Commissioner of Police, told journalists on Friday, August 6, 2021: “Some explosives were thrown at the police station just to incapacitate the police before they commenced the robbery. At the end of this, one special constabulary was killed in attempt to cart away weapon, and it was not successful.
“The operation was simultaneous – the police station and the two banks – meaning that the armed robbers would have been about 20 for such to happen at the same time.
“An unspecified amount of money was carted away. They operated in four vehicles. At the approach of my tactical team, led by me, the robbers fled.
“In their pursuit, they had to hurriedly abandon four of the operational vehicles and entered a nearby bush on foot. The police in conjunction with local security, particularly the hunters and OPC, entered into the bush.
“We embarked on a serious manhunt of the robbers. We couldn’t pursue them further at a point. In the vehicles they abandoned, we saw some of the ammunition, used and unused. We still believe that the operation is not without the knowledge of the indigenes who know the community very well, especially the bush they entered.
“We are working assiduously to get them arrested. We are hopeful that we shall get them and the mystery will be unravelled. What destabilised our men was the dynamite they used in the operation.”
