The Police Command in Oyo State has foiled a criminal operation at Bakari, a border village between Oyo and Ogun State and recovered an AK-47 rifle while on stop and search operation
The command’s Public Relation Officer, DSP Adewale Osifeso, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Monday and made it available to newsmen in Ibadan.
Osifeso said the operatives attached to the command’s Monitoring Unit made the breakthrough on Sunday at about 4:30 pm while on a stop and search duty at Bakari.
He said the suspect spotted the tactical team performing their routine intelligence checks from afar and immediately turned his Bajaj motorcycle to flee, the tactical operatives chased him and a sack containing one AK-47 rifle with breech number 353913 fell off the back of his motorcycle while he was fleeing.
The PPRO further said that comprehensive investigations was ongoing not only to apprehend the suspect but to as well crackdown his criminal network and supply chain.
