Two
suspected traffic robbers, Oyakhilome Okonkwo and Oche Joseph were on
Tuesday nabbed by officials of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in Lagos
state for alleged robbery.The suspects, aged 22 and 25
respectively, allegedly disguised as bus passengers and stole N23, 500
from a commuter at U-Turn in the Agbado boundary between Lagos and Ogun
states.
The yet-to-be-identified commuter, according to the Punch,
alighted at the U-Turn junction and he observed that his money was
missing.
He,
however, alerted the police on patrol who reportedly searched the
commuters in the bus, during which the two suspects were found with the
money.
Confessing to the crime, Joseph who resides at Mosalasi
Street in the Ojo area of the state said he had done several vocations,
but none had fetched him money like stealing.
He said, “The Agbado
area is the most lucrative route for this business. There are too many
pickpockets on the Oshodi-Mile 2 route. I decided to choose Agbado
because pickpockets are not many there.
“We usually monitored our victims coming out of banks and we would follow them into buses.
“Today (Tuesday), we were at the bus stop where the victim was but we could not remove the money at the bus stop.
“So,
we followed him into a bus and we began to pick the money from his
pocket. The money was in N500 denomination, so it was difficult to
remove the entire money at once.
“I started removing the money in tranches, but unfortunately for us, the passenger alighted not far from the bank.
“On
most occasions, we alight before the victim and we would run away. But
the man alighted before us, noticed that his money had been taken and he
raised the alarm.”
When contacted, the Police Public Relations
Officer, PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the arrest of the suspected
traffic robbers.
“We have recovered the stolen money, N23, 500 and the suspects, Oyakhilome Okonkwo and Oche Joseph, have been detained.
Wednesday 13 April 2016
How we stole N23,500 from victim’s pocket inside bus – Suspected robbers
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