The two suspects Emmanuel Thompson and Joshua Godwin
Two suspected criminals, Emmanuel Thompson and Joshua Godwin who are suspected members of a gang allegedly in the habit of terrorising Ogijo area of Ogun State on motorbike committing heinous crimes have now been arrested by the police.
The two were recently nabbed when they conspired together to gang rape an eighteen year old girl (name withheld).
A press release signed by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Police Command revealed that the suspects were arrested following a complaint lodged at Ogijo Divisional Headquarters by the victim.
According to the complainant, she boarded a commercial motorcycle at about 8 am of the said date, from MRI company area to Ogijo bus stop, but on the way, the rider who carried another male passenger with her suddenly diverted to another route, while the other male passenger started threatening to kill her if she didn’t cooperate with them.
She said they then forcefully took her to a room in one house in the area, where two others men were waiting for them.
On getting there, the two men they met in the room and the accompanied male passenger took turns to forcefully have sex with her.
Upon the report, the DPO Ogijo Division, CSP Onatufe Umoh, detailed his detectives to the scene where two of the suspects were apprehended while others escaped.
The two arrested suspects have however confessed to the commission of the crime while the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
The CP has also directed that the escaped members of the gang must be hunted and brought to book.
