Ogun State Police
Command, Special Anti Robbery Squad, has smashed armed robbery gang that using ‘’
hit from the rear by a motorcycle ‘’method to rob their victims. Their modus
oprandi is that , they will hit you with their motorcycle from the back, once
you alight to check the damages done to your vehicle or exchange words with
them they attacked..
It was gathered that the armed gang stormed Agbara
area of Ogun state last month, where they blocked their victim who slowed down
on reaching a bad spot, with their operational motorcycle. They thereafter,
ordered the fear stricken motorist to get down from the vehicle, pointing a gun
at him and thereafter zoomed off with the Toyota Camry car. Barely had
they driven off than the vehicle reportedly stopped. While they were
contemplating on the next move, a team of policemen reportedly stormed on them.
Three of them
were said to have fled into the bush, leaving their partner in crime, Olalekan
at the mercy of the policemen. Olalekan’s confessional statement reportedly led
to the arrest of other members of the gang, including car dealer who resides in
Ejigbo area of Lagos, who was alleged to be one of the gang’s receivers. Also,
some stolen vehicles were reportedly recovered in his showroom at Abule-Egba
area of Lagos.
The suspects
identified as Isiaka Olalekan, Kazeem Abiodun, Rafiu Ojolowo and Ife, however,
blamed their indulgence on unemployment. One of them, 24 year-old Abiodun, a
Nigeria Certificate in Education, NCE holder, claimed that he had to join
the ogboni confraternity in his frantic search for money
but never had his desire met .
Kazeem Abiodun, 25, who hails from Otto -Awori
, Ojo Lagos said:: “ I am an NCE holder from Adeniran Ogunsanya College of
Education , Ijanikin, Lagos. I graduated in year 2011. I had several jobs but
made no headway. I had to join Ogboni confraternity out of frustration. Yet, I
did not make any headway.
‘I started with
snatching handbags at bus-stops, from where I met Rafiu Ojolowo. Our major
place of operation was Agabra bus-stop. We were into that until we met Isiaka
who introduced us to real robbery where we used arms. I was given a pistol
while Rafiu rode the okada”.
‘I graduated
from yahoo to robbery.
“I am a secondary school drop -out. I have tried my hands on many menial jobs
without being able to feed myself. Several times, my family have suggested I
got married. But no woman wanted to marry me because I have no money. I learnt
tiling but could not get money to start a business of my own. I ventured into
internet fraud . But because I am not educated, I could not make anything reasonable
out of it.
Along the line, I
met Ife who introduced me into robbery . I learnt how to snatch cars from where
they were parked, using a metal key. Our choice car then was Toyota Camry
because it is easy and faster to sell.
Anytime we
succeeded in moving the vehicles from where they were packed, my job would be
to drive them down to Lagos, from where we would hand them over to Major , our
receiver. We were initially taking it to Alhaji Balogun who has a showroom,
before we switched to ‘Major’ who paid higher. For every car I took to Major, I
got N10,000 to N50,000, depending on the model. Isiaka said
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