A father of three who was arrested alongside three suspected
members of a notorious robbery gang that had been terrorizing Lagos and its
environs has confessed to be the gang’s armourer.
armed-robbery-suspect......The 32-year-old suspect, Sunday
Ajewole, also disclosed during interrogation at the Special Anti-Robbery Sqaud,
Ikeja, Lagos that he usually hid the gang’s weapons in an uncompleted building
in Ayobo area of state, at the end of each operation.
Preliminary investigation also revealed that Ajewole, a drop
out from the Osun State College of Technology, is a member of the Aiye
confraternity.
Members of the gang according to the Police, have allegedly
participated in several operations ,where vehicles were snatched from their
unsuspecting owners at gun point. They were also alleged to have been responsible
for some of the bank operations as well attacks on Bureau-de-change operators
in Lagos and Ondo states.
Police sources hinted that “ the gang robbed a bank in Ondo
state recently and a bureau de- change office in Ayobo” .
They however met their waterloo, after the Lagos State
Police Command got wind of their hideout somewhere around Gowon estate,
consequent upon which the command boss, Kayode Aderanti, detailed operatives of
the Special Anti Robbery Squad,SARS on their trail.
Operatives were said to have stormed a hotel in Gowon
estate, Egbeda, where three suspected members of the gang were arrested. Three
operational vehicles suspected to have been stolen , were reportedly recovered
from them.
Their confessional statement reportedly led the operatives
to a social gathering at Ayobo,where Ajewole, said to be spraying money on the
celebrate was arrested. A cut -to- size locally made double barrel gun and some
live cartridges were reportedly recovered from him.
I am now a changed
man
In this interview with Crime Alert, the father of three
displayed rare boldness as he declared that he had turned a new leaf while in
the cell, announcing to the surprise of all that he had been ‘anointed’ to be a
Pastor.
Hear him: “ I know I have sinned . But God has forgiven me.
Today, I am a changed man . I am not only born again, I am one of the Pastors
in the cell! If I come out of this alive, I am going to continue preaching the
gospel of God.
Yes! I was once a cultist. But that belongs to the past
because God has forgiven me.
“I joined the cult four years ago after my friend, Tunde,
initiated me. I was compelled to join because business was no more booming. I
own a house in Ayobo, a suburb of Iyana Ipaja,which was built ten years ago,
while I was working in a filling station. Three years ago, I sold my golf car
and used the proceed to build a shop in front of my house.
“I went into supply of kerosene and diesel in Ayobo area of
Lagos. But all of a sudden, things began to fall apart.
“I was arrested because my friend Omoloja, (one of the
suspects ) brought a gun to the Aiye confraternity temple in Isefun Ayobo.
Omoloja is a land grabber, he is also a member of our cult . When I asked him
how he got the gun, he said it was meant for security purpose.
Owing to the fact that I was the third in command, the gun
was kept in my possession . I kept it in an uncompleted building. But I never
went to any operation with them. My involvement is simply because I kept their
weapons”.
But other arrested members described his claim as a lie, insisting
that he went with them to the Ayobo operation where some Bureau-de-change
operators were attacked and cash, both in foreign and local currencies carted
away. They also disclosed that three of their weapons were in Ajewole’s
possession.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth
Nwosu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police , DSP said investigation into the case
was still ongoing , with a view to apprehending other fleeing members of the
gang.(VANGUARD)
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