Lagos Police said they have arrested a man described as the most wanted vicious and notorious hired killer and head of killers gang in the history of Lagos State in recent times. Wasiu Akinwande.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Benjamin Hundeyin. said the 44-year-old Akinwande, popularly known as Olori Eso, was arrested during a coordinated tactical operation code-named ‘Silence, Speed and Surprise’ carried out by the Command’s Tactical Squad in his hideout in the Agbado area of Ogun State.
He said that police also recovered nine sophisticated firearms, ammunition, magazines, dagger, walkie-talkies and international passports.
The recovered items include: Two AK-47 rifles, one K2 assault rifle, one Red Ryder rifle, three pump action rifles, two locally made single-barrel pistols, five magazines, fifty-seven live cartridges, and seventy 5.56 live ammunition.
Others are twenty-seven 9mm ammunition, one expended 5.56 ammunition, one dagger, three walkie-talkies, nine international passports belonging to different individuals.
The Lagos State PPRO added that his arrest marks a huge success in the ongoing fight against violent crimes that are threats to security and safety of residents in Mushin and some other parts of Lagos State.
The statement also said that Akinwande’s criminal activities have left trauma, horror, agony and pains in the families of victims of his numerous high-profile crimes under investigation. Investigations are on to arrest all other suspects linked to Wasiu Akinwande and bring them to justice
