For the love of dressing and looking like ‘Big boys” a 4-man gang of
armed robbers now specialize in stealing from boutiques as well as
telecoms shops.
The good news is, they have now been arrested!
The gang members, Ozioma Ike, 20, Kenechukwu Anierobi, 23, the gang
leader, Obi Gaza and Ugo Nnakue, 26 who are all apprentice at Lagos auto
parts market, were apprehended recently in Lagos after Ozioma was
arrested on May 18th in Mushin with a bag containing many cell phones.
On interrogation, Ozioma confessed to belonging to a gang of armed robbers.
“I sent Kenechukwu to follow Obi and the
other one to break a shop at Mushin and one boutique on Nkenu Street in
Ajao Estate. They went with one rod and two iron cutters. I sent them
two times. I shared their loot with my roommate. I chose my size of
jeans and shoes and started wearing them. I received four phones while
my roommate got about five. We break shops to get expensive shoes,
clothes which ordinarily we could not afford. But it was just to show
off as big boy traders in Ladipo market and its environs.
In our second operation, I got 12 jeans
trousers, two wrist watches and 13 assorted shirts which I kept for
personal use because I did not loot to sell. We succeeded in the third
operation but one of us, Kenechukwu, was arrested by police. When police
arrested him, we ran away but he later brought SARS operatives to
arrest us despite the oath we took not to betray any member in a
situation like that. For three years, as an apprentice, my master (who
is even my brother) refused to settle me. He even found it difficult to
give me pocket money to be like my peers; that was why I joined the gang
to get fine clothes to wear like my mates.
We shared our loot in our sponsor’s house.
In the first operation, I got 15 jeans trousers and 10 tops (shirts),
while in the second, I got 21 jeans trousers and 13 tops. I used my bag
to pack some of the loot. We hanged somewhere till 4 am before we started working towards a bus stop. We steal to show off as big boy traders in Mushin,” he said
He was taken to the Mushin police station from where he was
transferred to the State Anti Roberry Squad Ikeja, where he led the
police to where the others were.