Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS,
Lagos State, have nabbed two robbery suspects for allegedly
robbing residents, commuters and commercial cyclists,
popularly known as Okada.
The suspects, identified as Stanley Okorie, 20 and Emmanuel
Enu, 25 were nabbed during an operation at Satellite Town
and Ajegunle areas of Lagos respectively.
Vanguard gathered that the police arrested Enu with one
locally made short gun and a cartridge, while a toy gun was
recovered from Okorie, while the original gun was taken away
by other fleeing gang member, identified simply as Chijioke.
During interrogation, Enu, who hails from Boki Local
Government Area of Cross River, said: “I belong to a gang
which specialised in robbing on motorcycles along Oduduwa
Road, Ajegunle.
“I am the son of a retired naval officer. I went into robbery, so
I could raise money to travel to Sweden to pursue my football
career.
“On that day, we took off from around wharf area on a bike.
We snatched one man’s phone and Onuora said he wanted to
ease himself. While he was doing that, two motorcycles
trailing us stopped by and chased me.
“The gun was in a bag I was holding. Onuora escaped but the
motorcyclists who were policemen arrested me with the gun.”
In his defence, Okorie, an indigene of Delta State, who was
arrested along the Satellite expressway, said Chijioke taught
him how to rob.
According to him, “he was a commercial driver, he asked me
to join him when I asked for assistance. I needed to use the
money to pay for house rent.
“I have gone for about four operations at Igando and Agbara
areas. When we robbed at Igando, I got N13, 000. We also
took three phones and N15,000. We also carried out operation
at Agbara and realised N25,000. It was at Lekki that we make
the highest amount of N780,000.”