My Tattoo Has Ruined My Life, A Female Who Was Arrested In Lagos Gang Informant Cries

Fair-skinned Mariam Adesola, a 20-year-old hairdressing apprentice in Agege area of Lagos, sobbed as she sat on the ground on the premises of the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters in Ikeja.

If one is to take her word for it, she was merely a victim of her love for tattoos, or perhaps her willingness to readily obey her husband when he instructed her to get a specific tattoo.

Adesola was on a line-up of three other men, all from Agege area of Lagos. They all have a unique teardrop tattoo beside their left eyes.

That specific tattoo is the identity of members of the Awawa gang operating in Agege area of Lagos.

Some suspects and members of the gang, who had been arrested in the past, confessed that the teardrop tattoo is the mark by which they identify their members.


The members of Awawa (loosely translated as ‘we are alive’) have gathered reputation in the last two years as a ruthless band of robbers, who unleash mayhem, loot shops and attack residents at gunpoint in Agege area of Lagos. The ages of the members range from 17 to 23.

Unfortunately for Adesola, an arrested member, had fingered her as an
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