A taxi driver and his gang have been arrested for allegedly dispossessing unsuspecting passengers of their belongings in Ogun State.
The So-Safe Corps in Ogun State arrested the taxi driver, identified as Kehinde Ogunlate and some of his accomplices with whom he had robbed passengers of their money, phones and other items in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The State Commander of the Corps, Soji Ganzallo, through a statement by the Corps spokesman, Moruf Yusuf, said that on Friday, officers of the Corps on routine patrol acted on intelligence gathered that “one of the drivers who has been robbing passengers with his gang members was sighted in an area in Abeokuta.”
Ganzallo said the officers of the Corps were charged to go after them, and they swung into action immediately; “They traced the culprits and discovered that they had just robbed some passengers of their belongings.”
According to Ganzallo, Kehinde Ogunlate and one Yemi Ayoola usually “use the taxi to rob passengers.”