A 23-year-old ex-convict, Ayodeji Bakare, arrested for armed robbery by the police in Lagos State, on Monday, appealed to the state governor for loan to make him leave robbery.
Bakare was arrested by and handed over to detectives attached to the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigative Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspect before journalists at the command headquarters, Ikeja, said he was arrested on January 23 at Ebute-Meta area of the state during a stop and search by a team of policemen.
"During a search on the suspect, one locally-made pistol and six live cartridges were recovered from him,” Owoseni said.
The suspect, who is an ex-convict, appealed to the Lagos State governor, Akinwumi Ambode, to give him loan to start up a business and stop robbery.
"We are a three-man armed robbery gang, robbing people with our motorcycle in traffic. I am an aluminium fabricator, I started my robbery operation in 2014 after I came out from Ikoyi prison in 2013.
"I was sentenced to jail for stealing a white man's phone at Ikoyi Club where I was working. Our mode of operation is to stop people and search their bags in traffic after which we will rob them of their phones and other valuables.
“My own role is to point gun at our victims while some of us would hurriedly collect the person's money or handsets. I have also made about N500,000 from the robbery operation," he said.
Bakare added that he was initiated into the Eiye Confraternity group in 2013 by some people he met inside the prison.
"It was there they gave me orientation on how to rob and linked me up with one Sefu at Seme who sold guns and ammunition to me.
“When I was leaving prison, they gave me the name of the arms dealer who sold the gun and the bullets for me at N 30,000," Bakare added.
He said the arms dealer also help him to smuggle the gun into Nigeria

keep on robbin & die like a rat

kossyablaze:
Instead of war against indiscipline...I tink War against poverty is the correct bomb.

ademega:
loan ke. it must be jail loan not currency

mbaeeeee:
Useless fool
He should be sent to prison

kossyablaze:
Instead of war against indiscipline...I tink War against poverty is the correct bomb.