October 07, 2024
By Samuel Ogunsona
The Ogun State Police Command announced the arrest of Shedrack Olawale Olayemi, a 33-year-old man wanted for armed robbery and alleged rape of female students at Tai Solarin University of Education in Ijagun.
According to police spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola Olayemi, said the suspect was apprehended by the Igbeba Division in Ijebu-Ode following an intelligence report that he was spotted in the university area attempting to conceal his identity.
The statement said, “The divisional police officer of Igbeba Division has arrested a wanted notorious suspect for armed robbery.
“Following a tip-off, that one Olayemi Olawale Shedrack, aged 33 was sighted in Ijagun, trying to conceal himself among other citizens, but his identity was immediately confirmed by intelligence, and the police were contacted. In swift action, he was apprehended.
“Olayemi Olawale Shedrack has been on the police search for armed robbery and rape. He was fingered as the prime suspect for an alleged crime of armed robbery and rape in which he participated actively on the 21st of July, 2024, where he and his cohort broke into a female Royal Villa accommodation area in Tai University of Education Ijagun, where he robbed harmless female students of their luxury educational devices, including laptops, iPhones, sports wristwatches and cash, and further had unlawful carnal knowledge of the innocent female student and has since fled.” She said.
