The armed robbers
Security operatives have apprehended seven armed robbers who have been terrorizing residents of Lagos state.
The hands of the law has finally caught up with a group of robbers
after the operative of Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a unit of Lagos State
Police Command arrested the syndicate believed to have been terrorising
College Road, Fagba, and Abbattoir areas of the state.
As for this group of boys, their diversity in terms of language and
ethnicity was never a barrier as they were united in forming a gang
with the sole interest of robbing Lagosians of their valuables.
The robbers were arrested on Valentine’s day at around 9:00 p.m at
College Road, Ifako – Ijaiye area of Lagos, after the gang had robbed
more than five passers by of their valuables brandishing knives and
other harmful objects.
The suspects, whose names are: Lekan Akinyemi (23), Chimeze Ofulie(
18), Babangida Abdullahi (22), Abubakar Umaru (30), Samuel Oyinloye
(24), Timileyin Oladipupo (27) and Habeeb Olayinka.
All the suspects said they came from different parts of the country but reside in Abattoir, Agege, Lagos.
The suspects had on Thursday, robbed one Agafe Augustine after he
alighted from a taxi at College Road, Ifako Ijaiye. Amongst the items
collected from him by the gang were; an android phone, N14,000 and a
handbag.
According to Agafe, “I allowed them to rob me because they were
many and were holding dangerous objects but I trailed them to an open
place before raising alarm. This drew the attention of some RRS officers
on patrol in the area and they arrested some of them”.
He added “ they equally robbed some other victims amongst whom
were a lady in company of her boyfriend. They dispossessed them of their
phones and stabbed her boyfriend who refused to let go of his mobile
phone after parting with his wallet".
In his confessional statement to the crime , one of the suspects
said they specialise in robbing passersby at night collecting their
mobile phones, bags, jewelry and wallets.
Investigation by the police revealed that one of the suspects, Timileyin Oladipupo popularly known as ‘Timi Yahoo’,
specialised in working on SIM cards of the stolen phones to determine
which ones are internet banking enabled to facilitate the gang access to
transfering money from victims' accounts.
The suspect disclosed “I have worked on so many SIM cards given
to me by Lekan and other groups in Agege Abbatior and what I do is to
further increase our gain from the robbery by transfering victim’s money
from their bank accounts after using some softwares to determine how
much are lodged inside their accounts and we also share the proceeds".
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police Mu’azu Zubairu who ordered
the arrest of all the gang members, added that they be transferred to
SARS for a thorough investigation.
He noted that the gang be charged to court as soon as investigations are completed.
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