How Police in Ondo arrested suspected female burglary kingpin

BOSEDE Johnson looks innocent with her frail stature but when you engage her, you will find out that she is a wild person. And when she is on her dastardly act of burgling shops of notable business women in Akure, the Ondo State capital, she is entirely a different person.

Bosede Johnson

It looks and sounded unbelievable that such a woman could single-handedly carry out raids at night, burgle shops and cart away goods worth millions of naira.
The 30- year -old mother of two usually visits Akure, the Ondo state capital from her No 25, Ayeyemi street in Ijebu Ode, Ogun state whenever she wants to operate.
Without any help, Bosede, armed with Ghana Must Go bags, would single-handedly burgle shops housing expensive clothing materials by going through the ceilings of such shops after bye passing all the security put in place by the owners.

Information had it that during the day, Bosede would have visited to acquaint herself with the goods in the shops and the best way to enter the shop during her operation.
Before she was apprehended last month at Oda road in Akure for burglary and stealing, Bosede was said to have caused many persons especially women, pains and untold hardship by dispossessing them of their goods.
Bosede who told Crime Alert that she could not fathom the “evil spirit that pushes her to commit the crime” said her husband abandoned her and their two children. She was paraded alongside nineteen other suspects arrested by crack detectives from the command.

The suspected ritualists

Speaking with Crime Alert, the Police Commissioner Sani Mogaji said Bosede was arrested with many Ghana Must Go bags which she intended to use to cart away clothes from the store she burgled opposite School of Health Technology in Akure.
He added that Bosede has confessed to have previously burgled shops in Akure metropolis and carted away expensive materials. According to the commissioner, Bosede equally confessed of having a shop where she sells stolen materials.
Talking about other suspected criminals paraded in Akure, the Commissioner said they were kidnappers, ritualists and pipeline vandals. According to him, three blood brothers, Godwin Okeke who claimed to be a 300- level Political Science student of Novena University in Delta State, Azuka Okeke and Blessing Okeke, are amongst the six suspects arrested for kidnap.
Others include Ugochukwu Nwosu, Peretu Frederick and Akindele Ogunmusere who just finished his Secondary School education.
Mogaji added that a sum of N1.5 million and a road map of Okitipupa showing security points, five different mobile phones and a Toyota Matrix marked CG 644RSH were recovered from the suspected kidnappers.
Investigation revealed that the suspected kidnappers on June 22 lodged in Bako Guest House Okitipupa with the intention to commit felony. A team of police detectives moved to the scene and in the process, arrested the three blood brothers and two others.
On the three persons arrested for ritual killings, the Commissioner said that on Thursday June 6th this year at Ikoriho water side via Igbokoda, a group of persons sneaked into the House of Mrs Pupa Akingboye while she was sleeping and kidnapped her one- year and four months -old daughter, Dada Akingboye.
Dada was said to be sleeping beside her mother when she was taken away by the suspects. But after an alarm was raised and the police informed, Dada’s lifeless body was later discovered in the bush with vital organs of her body missing.
The missing parts include the deceased right eye, right ear lope, right side lip, the skin of the right side of her forehead and the skin of the back of her right palm removed.
According to the Police boss, the suspects have confessed to have committed the crime with twelve others now at large. Three of the four suspects paraded as Pipeline vandals are citizens of Benin Republic.
They reportedly confessed that the fuel loaded in their truck was from an NNPC bust pipeline inside the bush at Akinfosile in Okitipupa area of the state.

Suspected pipeline vandals

Acting on tip off, the police on surveillance patrol along Ose Igbokoda en route Okitipupa area, intercepted a truck marked XQ 980EPE loaded with 33,000 liters of petroleum product. The Police Commissioner named the non- Nigerians as Zakaru Sani, Amisu Isiaka and Rasheed Sani.
He said they sneaked into the country to perpetrate evil adding that five other armed robbery suspects were arrested and a stolen Police riffle and ammunition recovered from them.
Mogaji noted that all key and vulnerable points in the state would be adequately policed and protected while deliberate efforts will be made to promote harmony and enhance the rule of law in the state.

Culled from : Vanguard Newspaper