Police arrest assassin after 15-years in operation
Fifteen years of killings, robbery and terrorism orchestrated by Wasiu Akinwande aka Olori Eso could also have attain to an discontinuance.
The 44-yr-historical notorious employed killer, head of killers’ gang and cultist kingpin who collectively alongside with his multiple gangs and hoodlums have been terrorizing the Mushin impart of Lagos Allege and its environs used to be arrested by the Tactical Squad operatives of the Lagos Allege Police Divulge.
The serial killer suspect is basically the most wished in Lagos historical previous in contemporary times. His arrest marks a gargantuan success in the continuing combat against violent crimes that are threats to the safety and security of residents in Mushin and some assorted parts of Lagos Allege.
Akinwande used to be arrested in his hideout in the Agbado impart of Ogun Allege after loads of attempts by the Police Tactical Squad.
From 2009 except 2024, Akinwande and his gangs had terrorised the folk and communities, in particular in the Mushin impart of Lagos Allege. He used to be liable for organising and executing sequence of armed robberies, frigid blooded murders, kidnappings and cult-linked killings.
His reign of fear instilled panic and apprehension in residents and posed a foul probability to law and expose.
Akinwande’s prison activities have left trauma, fear, agony and anxiousness in the households of victims of his a gargantuan sequence of excessive-profile crimes under investigation by the Lagos Allege Police Divulge.
No matter his escapes from one impart of the nation to one more over time, the Lagos Allege Police Divulge remained resolute in its pursuit of justice.
The operatives of the pronounce raided his home in Mushin, and recovered cache of weapons and incriminating items he freely admitted he used to be using for his killing operations alongside with his gang.
The firearms recovered consist of two AK-47 rifles, one K2 Assault rifle, one purple Ryder rifle, three pump motion rifles, two domestically made single-barrel pistols, 5 magazines, 57 dwell cartridges, 70 5.56 dwell ammunition, 27 9mm ammunition, one expended 5.56 ammunition, one dagger, three walkie-talkies and 9 world passports belonging to assorted folks.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Allege Prison Investigation Department (SCID) used to be directed by the Commissioner of Police to lead assorted specially selected crack detectives to expand the investigation of the conditions and spherical up all assorted suspects linked to Akinwande and bring them to justice.
Four households identified him because the suspect in the attend of the killings of their young folk and wards.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos Allege Divulge, Olohundare Jimoh, reassured Lagosians that their security and security dwell the pinnacle precedence of the pronounce.
CP Jimoh commends the total officers all in favour of the operation and dedication, urging the public to proceed supporting the police by offering timely and credible files to help its crime-combating efforts.
The pronounce mentioned Akinwande is presently in custody under heavy security and should always face the fat weight of the law for all his crimes.
The pronounce called on residents to dwell vigilant, and document any suspicious job to the closest police impart and await the pinnacle consequence of police investigation which positively can be made public.
