Police have reported the arrest of members of the armed robbery syndicate, allegedly led by a medical doctor, whose name was given as Dr. Ola Solomon Jimade.
The police said that Dr. Jimade, who is the proprietor of Vital Care Hospital in Kubwa, Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory, is presently on the run.
The police paraded five members of the robbery gang, said to be specialists in terrorizing houses of rich persons and carting away valuables.
The FCT Police Commissioner, CP Sadiq Bello told news men while parading the suspects that the gang members normally operate in the early hours of the evening, drive in heavily tinted vehicles.
He said that their method is that when they get to the entrance of their target houses, they would blare the horns of the car and that as soon as gatemen who assume that they are family members or friends, open the gates, they would get inside and rob the occupants of their cars and valuables especially jewelleries.“
“The gang is led by one Dr. Ola Solomon Jimade, the proprietor of Vital Care Hospital in Kubwa who is presently on the run. Other suspects paraded are Sunday Okhomode, also known as Sunny-Momoh (principal member of the gang). He is 30 years old and lives in No. 35 Obabayibe, Abakilike, Ebony i State; Meshak James (principal member of the gang), 23 years old of Phase 3, Kubwa, Abuja; Amusu Koku, 28 years old of Kuruduma (painter). He specialises in changing the colours of stolen vehicles; Kunle Obajemi, 49 years old of Kuje Junction (printer). He is an expert in changing chassis numbers on the dashboards; and Suleiman Isa, 26 years old of Jiwa, Gwagwa (goldsmith). He buys stolen jewelleries from the gang.
The Commissioner of Police said that the arrest of members of the syndicate was sequel to a reported case of armed robbery incident at a house in Maitama in November, 2017 where a BMW X6 vehicle, large quantities of gold and other valuables worth millions of naira were carted away by the syndicate.
“Upon the receipt of the report, the Command through the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) commenced discreet investigation which led to the arrest of the aforementioned suspects and recovery of the robbed BMW X6 vehicle.
“In addition to this, four pistols with eight rounds of live ammunition and a face mask carefully concealed in a bag in the office of the run-away Dr. Ola Solomon Jimade were recovered during execution of search warrant in the suspect’s hospital.” [myad]
