Four
members of an armed robbery gang have been arrested for allegedly attacking
operators of a lotto office at the Ajangbadi area of Lagos State.
During
the attack, the suspects allegedly carted away phones, iPads, cash and other
valuable items from officials of the lotto office and stackers.
Those
arrested are Ndubuisi Alimona, 24; Ariyo Donatus, Sadiq Yakubu and Chuks, who
had narrated how they robbed the lotto operator and stackers.
Alimona,
who hails from Ebonyi State, revealed that it was one of the workers of the lotto
company who provided them with information on the movement of cash in and out
of their office.
Alimona
explained that the worker provided Donatus with useful information on how they
could rob their boss.
He
said, “Donatus met me one day and asked me what I was doing as a job and I told
him that I sell bottle water and soft drinks in traffic. He said I should leave
what I was doing and join his gang. I initially refused but because of pressing
financial, needs, I joined.
“One
day, he told me that he had useful information on how we can make good money.
We were in my house and I asked him what the information was all about. He told
me that someone gave him details of how cash was being moved in and out of
their lotto office. He said his informant had even given him the time cash
would be available in their office.
I reluctantly joined after which we met
with Sadiq and Chuks to deliberate on how we were going to embark on the
operation. It was at the meeting that we decided that we needed a gun. We bought
the guns we used from a guy we know as Aboki.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspects
before newsmen at the command headquarters, Ikeja, noted that the four suspects
were among the 33 armed robbers arrested within the metropolis in the last two
weeks.
He
said that the command was bent on ridding the state of all forms of criminality
in any part of the metropolis.
He
warned criminals to stay away from the state or would be made to face the wrath
of the law when arrested.
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