Three suspects are allegedly accused of robbing and sexually assaulting some female students at the Kwara State University, Malete, in the Kwara State local government area, according to police officials from the Kwara State command who claimed to have detained them on Sunday.Infomation Guide Nigeria
The accused, all residents of Ilorin’s Oke Fomo neighbourhood, are Ridwan Abdulfatai (20), Ibrahim Akorede (25), and Aliyu Apalado (25).
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In a statement, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, the state police’s public information officer, said that the arrest was made in response to accusations from a number of female students who claimed they had been robbed in their Malete hostel at the stroke of midnight on Friday, October 7, 2022.
“In carrying out the directive of the CP after receiving another report of an armed robbery attack from three females, all 400-level students of the Kwara State University, Malete, that they were all robbed at their hostel called ‘Downtown’ by armed hoodlums and their property forcefully carted away.Jamb Result
“While approaching the suspected hideout of the gang, the team was sighted by the hoodlums and the armed robbers took to their heels. One Ridwan Abdulfatai, aged 20, from Oke Fomo, Ilorin, was arrested by the detectives.
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“Consequently, the suspect, under intense interrogation, confessed he was the leader of a robbery gang terrorising the Malete community and its environs, stating also that he was a jail bird.
“He led investigators to effect the arrest of two other members of the gang, Ibrahim Ridwan Akorede, 25, of Oke Fomo area of Ilorin, and Aliyu Abubakar Apalado, 25; they all confessed to the crimes.
“The investigation also led to the recovery of the following items: one locally-made gun, one jackknife and charms, 11 generators, two motorcycles, one small fridge, one standing fan and one pumping machine.
“Nineteen iPhones, six handsets, three iPhone11, 16 iPhone 6 plus, five iPhone XR, and other telephone handsets, altogether totalling 87 handsets; 10 laptops and two television sets, were recovered.”
Okasanmi claimed that the police commissioner had promised to bring the accused before the court after the investigation was complete.
