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The commissioner of police in Lagos, Idowu Owohunwa, on Monday, announced the arrest of three suspects, who allegedly robbed and killed Sanni Adeniyi, an aide to Senator Solomon Yayi.
Mr Owohunwa told journalists at the command’s headquarters, Ikeja, that the suspects were arrested in Lagos and Oyo, respectively.
On August 5, the lawmaker representing Ogun West, Sen. Solomon Yayi, in a statement by his media aide, Kayode Odunaro, alleged that some soldiers killed his aide, Sanni Adeniyi Sanni.
The police boss in Lagos, however, said the suspects were not members of the Nigerian Army, stressing that they were armed robbers, who had served various jail terms before and were connected while at the correctional centres in Lagos and Ibadan.
“The arrest of the suspects, one Fred Okunnu, aged 43, Lucky Micheal, aged 33 and Adedigba Segun, aged 26, follows weeks of painstaking, diligent and discreet intelligence and investigative sets of actions.
“Items recovered from the suspects are one Brownie pistol with three rounds of live ammunition, one Beretta pistol with three rounds of live ammunition, one locally made cut-to-size pistol with six live cartridges and six expended cartridges,” he said.
The commissioner said they also recovered military gear (military camouflage vest, military jungle hat, military holster, jungle boots) and one red Honda CRV with Reg. No. EKY 276 JD allegedly hijacked from a yet-to-be-identified victim…
