Robbers Arrested When Trying To Share Their Loot
Three individuals from a 5-man burglary posse Tope Oyeleye, also known as Elede; Abiola Yekini and Yusuf Olohuntoba, also known as Ete , were captured on Monday by police officers joined to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of Agbado Police Division.It was accumulated that Elede and Ramoni, had ransacked a few houses in Owonikoko and Ayinla regions around 2am on Monday, where they took cash and telephones, among other family things.
They were said to have met on a road in Ayinla to share their plunder when a contention followed among them over how to share the plunder.
An inhabitant on the road apparently saw them and called the police, who immediately got toddler eh region and captured three of them.
Things recuperated from them incorporate 16 telephones, one DVD player, two slice to-measure firearms with a live cartridge, two spanners, a thief confirmation shaper, among others.Twenty-one-year old Elede, who hails from Ekiti State, admitted to the wrongdoing. He said:
“I WAS INITIALLY SELLING CANNABIS, BUT I JOINED A ROBBERY GANG THREE YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY FROM THE DRUG. WE WERE SEVEN IN NUMBER BEARING OYENUSI; I AM OYENUSI 07. WE ROBBED A BANKER OF N7M EARLY THIS YEAR AROUND RAFCO, AGBADO. WE KILLED HIM BECAUSE HE CONFRONTED US. I GOT N650,000 IN THAT OPERATION. THE SIX OTHERS HAVE BEEN KILLED.
“WE WERE SIX IN THE MONDAY NIGHT OPERATION. I WAS GIVEN FOUR PHONES AND A SUM OF N2,000 AS MY SHARE. THERE WAS AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN RAMON, SULE, J.J, ABSORBER AND I OVER THE SHARING FORMULA. WE WERE ON IT WHEN THE POLICEMEN CAME. ETE WAS NOT INVOLVED BUT HE IS MY FRIEND.”Yekini, a 28-year-old indigene of Ibadan, said:
“I WAS INTRODUCED TO THE GANG BY A FRIEND CALLED ANU WHEN I TOLD HIM I NEEDED N24,000 TO PAY MY SHOP RENT. I TRIED IN VAIN TO BORROW THE MONEY FROM MY Neighbors.
“THIS IS MY FIRST OPERATION AND MY ROLE WAS TO STAY OUTSIDE TO WATCH FOR OTHER MEMBERS ROBBING RESIDENTS. I COLLECTED THE FOUR PHONES AND N500 THEY GAVE ME WITHOUT ARGUING WITH THEM. I REALLY REGRET WHAT I DID.”
Ete, who is a shoemaker, said he was not a burglar, adding that he was only a companion of Elede. Be that as it may, the police said his destiny not entirely settled after the examination.
The Ogun State Police representative, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, affirmed the capture. He said the suspects would be moved to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Eleweran, for additional examination.