It was his wedding day but it seems like he would be having his wedding reception in a police cell. Nemesis caught up with a suspected member of a notorious robbery gang, Olumide Asiyanbi, as the Oyo State police command caught up with him while exchanging marital vows at a marriage registry in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.
It was the end of the road for the 42 year-old Olumide Asiyanbi, a member of a notorious criminal gang on his own wedding day.
According to Vanguard, the armed robber was arrested by the Oyo State Police Command while he was at the registry about to sign his marriage certificate.
Asiyanbi presently in police custody said he joined the gang a year ago and that he had taken part in 10 robbery operations during which he fired gun shots at their victims.
“I was arrested on my wedding day. I met the gang leader, James Agba, last year. He told me that he knew how we could be getting regular money. He then initiated me into the gang. I have taken part in at least 10 operations since I joined them.
“We used gun but I don’t know where James was buying them. Sulaimon and Alhaji, who are also in the gang, know how the guns were bought for our operations. I have fired shots at our targets but none was killed,” he said.
Another gang member simply identified as Agba who hailed from Delta State said he purchased some of the guns from one Emeka in Abuja.
But Asiyanbi, who hails from Ile-Ife in Osun State, said he was at the marriage registry when the long hands of the law caught up with him. He was suspected be a member of a six-man-robbery gang who operated in Challenge area of Ibadan on April 23, 2015.
Speaking on the development, the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Katsina, said the robbers, which included a 62-year-old Ghanaian, had terrorised many residents of the area with guns and other weapons.
The Ghanaian, Joseph Mate, said he was a security man in Ajibade area of Ibadan and that he had been living in Nigeria for many years. The commissioner said all the suspects would be charged to court.