Chioma Okafor, who is 29 years old, and Nweke Joshua, who is 19 years old, are accused of robbing a store in the Adesan area of Mowe on November 25. They were caught by the Ogun State Police Command.
SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state police command's spokesperson, said in a statement that the suspects were caught after a distress call was received at Mowe divisional headquarters at about 9:30 pm. The call said that armed robbers had broken into a temporary store owned by Johnson Nwokoro at Safari Junction Adesan and stole the day's sales.
''Upon the distress call, the DPO Mowe division, SP Folake Afeniforo, quickly mobilized the division's patrol team and the so safe corps men to the scene where the two suspects were arrested.
On searching them, it was discovered that they came to rob the shop with toy guns which looked perfectly like original pistols.
On interrogation, the 19 years old Nweke Joshua, informed the police that it was Chioma Okafor who came with the idea of carrying out the robbery operation in order for them to have some money.
He stated further that it was Chioma who bought the two toy guns and gave him one to use for the operation.'' the statement read in part
Oyeyemi also said that the suspects went to the shop and pretended to be customers. Then, they pulled out guns and told the shop owner to give them all the money he had. He said that they ran out of luck when the police and the safe corps showed up before they could get away.
CP Lanre Bankole, the Commissioner of Police, has ordered that the suspects be sent to the State Criminal Investigation Departments so that they can be investigated in private.