{"id":164881,"date":"2025-05-29T23:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun"},"modified":"2025-05-30T01:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:10:57","slug":"police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest motorcycle thieves in Osun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Police operatives in Osun State have arrested two brothers, Ajala Idowu and Ajala Maruf, for the theft of two motorcycles in Ikirun, Ifelodun Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known by the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Umar Abba, in a statement issued by Abiodun Ojelabi, the Osun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement revealed that the arrest of the siblings was carried out following complaints from residents of the Maboreje area of Ikirun, and upon a tip-off and intelligence-led operation by detectives.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers, upon interrogation, disclosed that they bought the motorcycles on Facebook through Ajala Idowu\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>Ojelabi stated that further discreet investigation also led to the arrest of 28-year-old Ibrahim Idris, who is also a motorcycle mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cFollowing complaints from the Maboreje area, Ikirun, reported at Ikirun Police Area Command on 23rd December 2023 and 24th March 2024, respectively, that a TVS blue colour lady motorcycle with Reg. No. KNR 759 UM and a TVS with Reg. No. FNN 898 QE were stolen from the above-mentioned addresses. The Command continued with the investigation and, on 8th May 2025, upon a tip-off and intelligence-led operation, detectives attached to the CP\u2019s Monitoring Unit arrested one Ajala Idowu, 40, and his elder brother, Ajala Maruf, 56, with one of the stolen motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey claimed to have bought the motorcycle on Facebook through Ajala Idowu\u2019s account. Further discreet investigation led to the arrest of Ibrahim Idris, 28, a native of Ibadan, Oyo State, who is also a motorcycle mechanic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ojelabi disclosed that the investigation has been concluded and the suspects have been charged in court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Police operatives in Osun State have arrested two brothers, Ajala Idowu and Ajala Maruf, for the theft of two motorcycles in Ikirun, Ifelodun Local Government Area. This was made known by the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Umar Abba, in a statement issued by Abiodun Ojelabi, the Osun State Police Command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,516,165],"class_list":["post-164881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-osun","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police arrest motorcycle thieves in Osun - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police operatives in Osun State have arrested two brothers, Ajala Idowu and Ajala Maruf, for the theft of two motorcycle ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police arrest motorcycle thieves in Osun\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police operatives in Osun State have arrested two brothers, Ajala Idowu and Ajala Maruf, for the theft of two motorcycle ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-29T22:58:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-30T00:10:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748551317.428211.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police arrest motorcycle thieves in Osun\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-29T22:58:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-30T00:10:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun\"},\"wordCount\":285,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748551317.428211.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Osun\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrest-motorcycle-thieves-in-osun\",\"name\":\"Police arrest motorcycle thieves in Osun - 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