Ogun Police handle 536 criminal cases in six months

Speaking with Sunday Trust on his six months in office on Tuesday, Argungu said that the cases covered both criminal and civil matters between March-April 2009 when he took the mantle of leadership of the Command. He added that in the period under review, a total number of 872 ammunitions and 81 arms were recovered. […]

Speaking with Sunday Trust on his six months in office on Tuesday, Argungu said that the cases covered both criminal and civil matters between March-April 2009 when he took the mantle of leadership of the Command. He added that in the period under review, a total number of 872 ammunitions and 81 arms were recovered.

“Also, 181 vehicles of different brands were either recovered from fleeing robbers or recovered from those who specialized in buying and selling stolen vehicles. We have arrested 35 persons for cultism, 41 for murder and nine for rituals,” he added.

Speaking on the robbery incidents in the state, the Commissioner explained that, “the porous nature of the state as the gateway state even into the neighbouring countries is largely attributed to the number of robbery incidents, but we are after them too and this may not be unconnected to the number of them arrested.

“You see, these robbers are very intelligent and they move ahead. Before, we discover that Ibara Housing area is their abode and we put our men there. Yet they move into hotels and we also responded by blocking them and they ran away. Now they have adopted new method by operating in the early hours. Only this morning we foiled a robbery at Ijebu ode/Sagamu road. They snatched a Camry car and we got the information and we quickly move into action. The car has been recovered. I want to use this opportunity to thank members of the public for giving us support in achieving what we have been able to achieve so far.”

Argungu commended the people of the state for the co-operation “they have so far given to this Command. I want them to continue in that spirit,” he said, adding that his impression about the state before coming was not what he met on ground, stressing that the people were mostly involved in civil matters.

According to him, what was prevalent in the state was   the problems of chieftaincy titles; land matter, union road matters and problems of associations having different factions. These, he maintained were all  civil matters that were to be sorted out by the courts, therefore people should go  to court to settle these matters and leave them with the issue of crime and criminality.