A 26-year-old man, Chekube Aja, is claiming that
he took to armed robbery to avenge his loss to
fraudsters.
Aja told the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARs),
Lagos Police Command in Ikeja that he lost N1.2
million to some fraudulent travel agents in
South Africa, where he lived for two years.
He said when he was trying to get his papers,
someone offered to help him get a wife to
facilitate his residence permit.
“I paid the person N300,000, but at the end of
the day, he ran away with my money; that was
how I returned to Nigeria,” he said.
Later, he moved to Brazil, where he lost
N900,000 to fraudsters who promised to link him
to drug barons so that he could become a
carrier. The effort, he said, failed and he
returned to Nigeria with nothing.
The suspect said when his cloth business at
Wuse Market in Abuja was not moving, he began
to snatch cars which he sold to a buyer, who he
simply identified as Chinedu, now at large.
“I was snatching and selling small cars to him,
but one day, I took a Golf car to him. He
declined to pay, saying that he wanted me to
upgrade and be snatching big cars. The Golf was
worth N300,000, but he gave me a Baretta pistol
instead. He said I should use it to dream big,”
Aja said.
After supplying Chinedu with six cars valued at
N2million, he said he relocated to his Udi,
Enugu State home town, to set up a liquor joint.
He said early this year, his cousin, Sunday Okike
(28), persuaded him to come to Lagos and make
money with his pistol. But he declined, saying
he could be caught.
Aja said: “A week after Okike left the village, I
came to Lagos and joined him in our first
operation. A man was driving into his compound
in Egbeda and we trailed him. We robbed him of
N500,000 and shared it. I was involved in other
operations; it was after the fifth operation that I
was caught. We snatched an End of Discussion
Honda car and as I was taking it out of Lagos to
Abuja to deliver to Chinedu, I was arrested on
the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.
Okike, who deals in carpets at 12, Orptal Street
on LASU Road, Igando, a Lagos suburb, said he
went into robbery to improve on his business.
Okike lamented that after serving his boss for
five years, he was settled with only N300,000. He
said after he rented a shop, he had only
N100,000 to invest in the business.
The suspect, who is the only son of his aged
mother, admitted that he was the person that
brought the pistol to Lagos and took Aja to areas
the rich and middle-class live.
Detectives trailed the suspects following the
victim’s distress call which was received by
Commissioner of Police Umar Manko.
Following Manko’s directive, the officer in charge
of SARS, Abba Kyari, a Superintendent of Police
(SP), arrested Aja with a Honda car marked KJA
321 AV.
The suspect took the detectives to where they
arrested Okike.
“A Baretta pistol marked C97421Z, with 11
rounds of live ammunition and about six phone
sets were recovered in a bag which he hid in the
ceiling of his room,” the police said.

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hmmm.

D Quest to get rich by all cost from some of our youth from south East is worrisome, why am angery abt this is because our father toiled this earth and where patience b4 they hit it big.
why can't this boi that was given 300K by his master make it big?, only two words comes to mind, Greed and Impatient. u can't make money as a businessman with patience and the third sense, My Dad settles his boiz with 100k each and today they are big boiz in d same business by using my dad influence in d market.

It happened close to my area. The person in the picture below. Is one of the suspects that is at large.

We robbed him of
N500,000 and shared it. I was involved in other
operations; it was after the fifth operation that I
was caught. We snatched an End of Discussion
Honda car and as I was taking it out of Lagos to
Abuja to deliver to Chinedu, I was arrested on
the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.
Okike, who deals in carpets at 12, Orptal Street
on LASU Road, Igando, a Lagos suburb

They always set up a legit business on the side to cover their main profession.

D desperation and the criminal tendencies of the igbos has no match. For the kids on nairaland that cries more than often that the success, riches and wealth of the igbos are envied by other tribes, u need to wake up to the reality that the igbos has nothing to be envied by no one. If proper investigation is carried out into the success the igbos claims one we found out that 85 to 90% of igbo wealthy men and women has a link to either robbery, bloodmoney, occultism, drug trafficking, murder or treasury looting. From alaba international market, international trade fair complex, Ladipo and outside, igbo guys has shared with me tales of how they had been lured other successful igbo colleagues to join them in any of the above evil to make money, they shared wih me to seek my views.

TribalEAST: It happened close to my area. The person in the picture below. Is one of the suspects that is at large.

Really?