By Felix Mordi
As the saying goes: “It is the thief at home that invites the one from outside. That was exactly what happened to one Stephen Anyi, who was robbed at gun point in his Kajola Phase 2 residence in Ifo, Ogun State by a gang of Mushin-based armed robbers in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
The victim’s 25-year-old sales boy, Peter Okenu, sold his Master’s profile to the robbers, who invaded his abode at about 2:00am on December 17, 2020.
The gang, numbering seven, armed with guns, cutlasses and axe, held Peter’s employer and his family members hostage before dispossessing them of a cash sum of N150,000, his laptop, phones, Plasma Television set and his Toyota Highlander Jeep, marked: KJA 38 FZ, with which they made away with the robbed items.
The victim consequently lodged a complaint at the Ifo Police Divisional headquarters, following which the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Adeniyi Adekunle, detailed his crack detectives to go after the robbers.
According to the Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a press statement: “The detectives, who had since then embarked on intelligence and technical investigation, were able to trace the hoodlums to Mushin area of Lagos State, where they were about to dispose of the Toyota Highlander Jeep”.
The PPRO said four of the criminal gang members were swiftly rounded up.
He gave their identities as Ibrahim Arowolo (m) 24, Sowemimo Faruk (m), 18yrs, Yusuf Azeez (m) 23 years and Yakubu Ibrahim (m), 31years.
In the course of their interrogation, the suspects spilled the bean and named the sales boy as their pointer.
They disclosed how Peter, who was in charge of Stephen’s shop, as a sales boy, at Sango in Ogun State, met them and gave a concise description of his employer’s residence.
The sales boy who was thereafter arrested, owned up to committing the crime.
Items recovered from the suspects, according to the police, are the Toyota Highlander Jeep, one locally made single barrel cut-to-size gun, one locally made double barrel pistol, three cutlasses and four different types of phones.
“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Edward A. Ajogun, who is full of praises for the display of vibrant intelligent investigation, has directed that the case be transferred to the Violent Crime Intervention Unit (VCIU) of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for discreet investigation. He also ordered that the remaining members of the gang be hunted and apprehended”, the statement added.
- Culled from Felix Mordi Facebook Timeline