By Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo

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A serial burglar, Matthew Ajayi, has told the Osun State Police Command that he has been engaged in liquor stores burglary since he was 14 years old.
Ajayi, who was paraded by the Osun State Police Command after his arrest in Osogbo confessed that he has been stealing liquor from various stores and selling to other dealers in Osogbo.
The 18-year-old boy, who had been beaten by the mob who apprehended him before the intervention of police. He disclosed that his mother is a teacher while his father is a commercial motorcyclist.
Police spokesperson in Osun State, SP Yemisi Opalola, told newsmen that on Monday, July 26, around 1:30 pm, that the Commissioner of Police’s Surveillance team arrested Ajayi, who had burgled two different shops along Stadium area of Osogbo.
“The suspect confessed to the crime and mentioned three other members of his syndicate now at large. The suspect equally led the detectives to the shops he and his syndicates have burgled and the victims attested to incessant attacks on their shops,” she said
Another suspected thief paraded, Sandra Bisong, 16, was also arrested for stealing phones.
Bisong said he went to steal the phone to pay off a debt after the debtor had seized an android phone he stole sometime ago.
He was also arrested on Monday around 11:45 pm by the Commissioner of Police’s surveillance team while on township patrol within Osogbo metropolis.
The command’s spokesperson said, “The suspect was interrogated, searched and exhibits were recovered from his bag and he consequently confessed to having snatched and robbed the victims of the exhibits at different locations within Osogbo as some of the victims have identified the suspects and the exhibits.
The suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigation is completed.