The Ondo State Police Command on Thursday, May, 21, 2015 announced that three men who had earlier escaped from a jail in Ekiti State have again been arrested 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 a November 2014 jail break, The Punch reports.
Banji Adedayo, 40; Tope Daramola, 45; and Segun Akinseye, 38, according to the State Police Commissioner, Isaac Eke, were members of a gang that had been plaguing the people of Ondo State in the past few months.
Parading the suspects at the police command headquarters in Alagbaka, Akure, the commissioner explained that the trio, along with two other men, allegedly snatched a Toyota Camry and some mobile phones from a certain Komolafe Remidayo on Ondo Road, Akure.
He said the Special Anti Robbery Squad, after receiving a tip-off, swung into action and arrested the suspects.
Eke added that efforts were in place to arrest the fleeing members of the gang and also to recover the snatched vehicle.
One of the suspects, Adedayo, however denied being a member of the gang. He however admitted that he escaped during the jail break in Ado Ekiki.
Adedayo, who said he was jailed in Ekiti 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.”
The suspects will soon be charged to court while the rest of the gang are still being tracked by the police.
