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Police kill Oba Aro, Ibadan notorious robber
By Sola Shittu,
Reporter, Ibadan
It was a bloody Saturday morning yesterday in Ibadan as the state Police Command shot dead two armed robbers at Oremeji area along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
One of the robbers was a handicapped and notorious armed robbery suspect popularly called 'Oba Aro'.
He is said to specialise in raping and robbing women of their possession.
As at the time of his death, Oba Aro had over 60 charges against him in the state law courts while he had always been going scott free on bail.
But nemesis caught up with him when his three-man gang (made up of he himself, one other man and a woman) when one of their victims, a woman (name withheld) spotted their vehicle, a BMW five series car marked LAGOS JA459KJA at Alakia junction area while returning from a social function at Ede in Osun State.
According to the woman, they had chartered the BMW car in Ibadan on their way to Ede for the 90th birthday of a friend's father at Ede on Friday evening. But when they got to Gbongan junction, the driver and the handicapped passenger beside him pulled out a gun at the three women sitting at the back of the BMW and dispossessed them of their money and trinkets valued at over N1 million before ordering them to get out of the vehicle and zoomed off.
"We could not believe it, because this man was handicapped and his feeble leg was dangling beside the driver. When we saw the vehicle this morning while returning to Ibadan from Ede, we quickly called the attention of the police man at Iwo Road junction to it," she said.
She explained further that all the time they were in the car together, Oba Aro was busy making calls and refilling his phone with credit cards.
She added that they were worried that the number of the credit cards he was using on the phone was too much but never suspected that he was a robber until they were robbed at Gbongan junction.
The policemen of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SAS, who were at Iwo Road junction quickly blocked the car with their jeep but it forced its way out.
The police gave them a hot chase after dropping an unsuspecting census enumerator that was given a lift to Iwo Road for the census exercise.
The car was chased to Monatan along Iwo Road before it made a U-turn and returned to Iwo Road junction facing a one way to Lagos road.
At that time, the robbers had succeeded in deflating the tyre of one of the SAS vehicles chasing them and the police men had to come down and join another vehicle for the hot chase.
By the time it got to Oremeji overhead bridge along Lagos expressway, the two rear tires of the BMW car had been deflated by the fire power of the police men but the driver continued to race on with the car rims which had been blazing with fire.
When the car finally stopped at Oremeji, the only lady survivor escaped, but the two occupants, including the driver were already dead and the car had been riddled bullets.
The killing was the result of a hot chase of the suspected robbers by the Police.
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