Hunters, Police Arrest Teenage Female Robbery Gang In Osun

Kazeem Badmus

THREE female teenagers were in the wee hours of Monday arrested in Osogbo by a group of local hunters for allegedly robbing and carting away an undisclosed sum of money belonging to an elderly woman.

The three teenagers were said to have snuck into the house of the victim and carted away the money given to her from a party she hosted earlier on Sunday.

OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the suspects invaded the woman’s house immediately she returned home at Aresa area of the state capital after the party.

According to an eye witness, Bello Adeosun, one of the girls confessed when arrested that she was outside watching guard for the other two who went inside through the window.

He stated: “The girls confessed to entering the house through the window. One of them was at the party and kept surveillance on their victim throughout the day. She later informed the two others and they invaded the house later in the night.

“They had taken the money,but while moving out of the house, they stepped on the victim and she alerted neighbours by continuously shouting ‘Thief! Thief!’.

“The hunters in the community rushed to the scene and arrested one of them around 4am. She later led the team with Police to arrest the two other suspects at Ilugun and Sasa areas respectively. They were all teenagers around 14 and 16 years old”.

The spokesperson of the Police in the state, Mrs. Yemisi Opalola, confirmed the incident, saying that the girls were arrested through a joint operation between the hunters and Police operatives.

She added that they had been handed over to the Anti-cultism unit of the Police for further investigations