Police Apprehend Five-Man Robbery Gang In Lagos (Photo)

   

THE Lagos State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has

smashed a five-man armed robbery gang. Four members

of the gang were arrested and their leader simply named

Lekan reportedly escaped.

The suspects are Tayo Abiola, 36 from Ikale Village in

Ondo State, Bala Shaibu, 33, from Maiduguri, the Borno

State capital, Tayo Olajide, 25, from Osun village in Ekiti

State and Jessi Garba, 36 from Damboa village in Borno

State.

According to the police the five-man armed robbery gang

went to rob in Ajah and branched elsewhere to share

their loot when SARS operatives swooped on them.

Garba confessed to the crime, saying: “We were five in

number. We went there to rob but police came and

arrested four of us. It is only our gang leader Lekan that

escaped. My role is to beat up stubborn victims”.

Olajide said: “I am a barber and the owner of the hotel

where the gang members usually lodge. They have not

given me a dime since I knew them. My role is simply to

provide accommodation for the gang”.

Shaibu claimed to be a taxi driver, saying he used to

follow Garba on patrol as friends not knowing that he

was an armed robber.

On why he could not leave when he found out that they

were robbers, he said it was too late to do because it

could cost him his life. He said he is the gang’s

operational driver.

Abiola said their victims included one Navy Captain

Overt and one Omobolanle Babatunde and that the

operation was carried out on July 20 at Ilaje Ajah.

Abiola said his younger brother, Sunday, was an armed

robber.

He said he was with Sunday’s gang when the police

arrested them while sharing their loot.

He said he was arrested along with them, adding that a

gang member was shot dead in a gun duel with the

police.

Source: TheNation