A 52-year old armed robbery suspect, Ojo Kayode a.k.a Mayehun who is currently being investigated by the Ogun State Police Command has revealed how he disappears from crime scenes to avoid arrest from law enforcement officers.
According to Ojo who was arrested alongside his gang members, Olatunbosun Oladimeji, Thompson Lawrence, Ola Adegbite, Sunday Oloye and Dare Dedeigbo at Akure in Ondo State, the very night I was arrested I just finished holding meeting with my gang members and we were planning to go for another operation.
Ojo said “I am an armed robber, I rob people, houses with my gang and also steal vehicles from the pack, and I have stolen nine cars and sold it to a dealer.”
“I have been to prison three times and have spent forty years of my life in prison. The first time, I spent four years for stealing at the Olokuta prison in Akure. While in the prison I mingled with other convicted robbers who introduced me to other robbers outside the prison. So after leaving the prison, I joined a robbery gang and started robbing innocent people again. I was arrested the second time for same robbery and was in prison for twelve years. After I was released because I didn’t learn a trade and couldn’t do any other work, I went back to armed robbery. Later I was later arrested, and charge to court, the third time and sentenced him to ten years imprisonment”.
“When I was released, I formed another gang and I sorted for protection against arrest that was why I did the disappearing powers called afęęri in Yoruba through my herbalist who is now late. This afęęri enable me to be invisible whenever I go for robbery and police are after me. I have disappeared twice in the hands of some officers which led to their dismissal.
“I couldn’t disappear in the hands of the tactical officers, because my charm has expired”.
Confirming the arrest the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Kenneth Ebrimson said the suspect, Ojo a.k.a Mayehun is one of the deadliest armed robbers in Akure, due to his magical act of disappearing, he has escaped many arrests. His robbery gang is one of the robbers terrorizing Akure and its environs but fate ran out on them as they were traced and busted during one of their deadly operations by the IGP Special Tactical Squad Abuja, Ayetoro Annex, Ogun State led by DSP Toyin Omosebi.
Recovered from the robbery gang are two locally made pistol, one hundred and five live cartridges, five locally made guns, five cutlass with fifty pieces of blade used in cutting people’s net, a big stick and eight vehicles
