Robbers kill 2 policemen in attempt to steal church offering

FILE PHOTO: POLICEMEN

Dare-devil robbers, on Sunday, desecrated a church as they shot two policemen dead at the Vine Branch Church, Queen Elizabeth Road, Ibadan, after their failed attempts to steal the church’s tithes and offering.
Policemen were also said to have fired some fatal shots at one of the robbers who was reportedly taken  away by his gang members.
According to sources, the robbers, who were said to have mixed with the congregation, accosted a banker who is in charge of the collections, but the robbers miscalculated as nothing was found on him.
Infuriated, the robbers reportedly shot in the air thereby causing commotion in the well attended church.
When they missed their target, it was gathered that the robbers, in annoyance, shot two police officers who were on guard in their van outside the church.
Of the three occupants of the police van, only the driver escaped the robbers’ bullets.
According to reports, the rampaging robbers tried to cover their tracks as they made attempts to destroy the monitoring gadgets.
The Police Public Relations Officer,  Oyo State Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Olabisi Ilobanafor said the command lost two of its officers in the attack.

Couple arrested over underaged prostitutes

Four commercial sex workers and a couple believed to have hired them have been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in Ibadan. The couple are said to be owners of the brothel where the alleged under-aged girls were used as prostitutes. They were rounded up at Orita Aperin in Ibadan North East local government area of the state.

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Olabisi Ilobanafor, said one of the girls who refused to have sex with one of the customers of the couple ran to some people for help. While parading the suspects, Mr Mohammed Indabawa, the Commissioner of Police in the state, said the girls were under-aged.However, the girls claimed they were aged 20, 22, 20 and 23 years respectively.

Ilobanafor said when one of the girls living with the couple was arranged for sex with a man, but protested because she did not know that was the purpose for which she was engaged by the hotel operators. When she was to be forced, according to the PPRO, she ran out of the place and reported to some people, who then alerted the police.

The owners of the hotel were said to have employed the girls as bar attendants but used them as commercial sex workers.  One of the girls confessed that they were being used as prostitutes and paid N1,000 every Monday.