Oyo police recover charms, others from kidnap, robbery suspects By Danielle Ogbeche

The Oyo State Police Command, Thursday, paraded 22 suspects for alleged offences which ranged from kidnapping, armed robbery and production of illegal firearms.
Speaking with newsmen in Ibadan while parading the suspects, Mr. Leye Oyebade, the Commissioner of Police, said the suspects who confessed to the crime, were assisting the police in their investigation while efforts were on to arrest other suspects.
He also noted that nine of the suspects were arrested for kidnapping; seven were arrested for armed robbery and four were arrested for stealing a truck and a Mazda car, and one of the suspects was apprehended for abduction.
The Commissioner, thanking members of the public for their cooperation and for providing the police with information that led to the arrest of some of the suspects, promised that the command would not rest in its efforts to ensure that peace and security prevail in the state.
He said, “We are ready to march our words with action and this has been demonstrated when the proactive, aggressive policing strategies adopted by the police resulted in this breakthrough.
“We have been consistently promising the public adequate security and we have warned criminals to abandon their evil trade or risk being caught.
While urging the public to report to the police whenever they noticed suspicious movement to enable them act promptly, Oyebade said the items recovered from the suspects included, “charms, seven locally-made single barrel guns, four pump action automatic rifles, four cutlasses, assorted tools for fabricated illegal firearms, rubber slipper, 10 packets of live cartridges, three mobile phones, one jack knife and one pump action gun.”