Osun: Police nab brothers for theft, conspiracy

The police in Osun like nabbed two brothers, Saliu Yisa and Saliu Qudri, for conspiracy, theft, and obtaining money and items below fake pretenses.

The Osun Yelp Police Exclaim Spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, revealed for the length of a press briefing on Friday in Osogbo that the duo, faded 30 and 19 years, defrauded an unsuspecting businessman who desired to make investments in cattle rearing.

Opalola said the elder brother, Yisa, had broken-down proceeds fraudulently got from his crimes to build a condo within the Kelebe condo of Osogbo.

She said, “On July 19, 2024, the complainant reported to the CP’s surveillance team that he knew one Saliu Yisa, a Fulani by tribe, through one Olarewaju Muhammed within the year 2020 and engaged him in a industry of cattle rearing. He gave him 27 cows to rear at the starting save. In 2022, he handed over an additional 10 cows to Saliu Yisa, totaling thirty-seven (37) cows.

“He visited him bi-weekly. The complainant said additional that spherical March 2024, he handed over yet one more 5 (5) cows to Saliu Yisa and used to be later persuaded to buy more cows for the Ileya competition in 2024. He offered 13 cows at the charge of N2,500,000. After procuring the cows, he used to be confirmed the cows through a video name and in my view went to mediate in regards to the cows earlier than payment.

“Both of them inserted symbols on the ears of the cows, no longer vivid that he later eradicated the total symbols from the cows and returned them to his accomplice (his brother), whom he had borrowed the cows from to deceive and like money from the manager.

“The complete selection of cows handed over to Saliu Yisa used to be fifty-four (54). A month within the past, the farm manager noticed extraordinary conduct from Saliu Yisa and decided to satisfy with him at Oni-Oba/Kelebe Dwelling, Osogbo, the save he used to be living. He came across that every the cows had been taken to an unknown shuttle say and that Saliu Yisa used to be nowhere to be came across.

“Saliu Yisa’s better halves claimed that they didn’t know the whereabouts of their husband and that he hadn’t known as, which used to be came across to be phase of the conception. Saliu Yisa blocked the complainant’s number.

“In some unspecified time in the future, Saliu Yisa broken-down his younger brother, Saliu Qudri’s line, to name the complainant and claimed that every 54 cows had died with none proof to show it. Police swung into motion, arrested the suspect and his accomplice from their hideout, and he confessed to having broken-down the money restful from the complainant to build a condo in Kelebe condo, Osogbo. Sixteen (16) cows were recovered from his brother, the save he used to be rearing them for his beget private reach.”

Sixteen cows were additionally recovered from the suspects as proof of their shady industry.

Opalola added that the suspects will be charged to court after the completion of the investigation.