The Anti-Robbery Squad of the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, has
arrested a four-man gang that had allegedly been
terrorising residents of the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
We learnt that the suspects – Akin Ayotunde, Isaac
Ogbonna, Sola Dede and Sodiq Lawal – specialised in
lurking around houses at night and switching off their
victims’ generators before attacking them.
They, however, met their Waterloo last Thursday when
they were arrested after invading the apartment of one
Bello Hakeem in the Igbe area.
Our correspondent was told that the suspects spent six
hours in the victim’s duplex and went away with his car,
generator, money, phones, Automated Teller Machine
cards, modems, laptops and cash.
They also stole his wife’s jewellery and withdrew
N100,000 using one of the ATM cards.
Hakeem told our correspondent that around 11.09pm on
Tuesday, he observed that his generator suddenly went
off and he asked two of his children to go outside and
fix the problem.
“About five minutes after they left, they were forced
back into the house by four men, who were armed with
knives.
“They ordered us to cooperate with them. They searched
the house and made away with three laptops, six
phones, three ATM cards, a new 3.5KVA generator, one
75alms battery, two modems, jewellery, cash, and my
Toyota Corolla. They held my family hostage for six
hours before leaving at about 6am the next day,” he
added.
Hakeem, an environmental scientist, said he reported the
incident at the Ijede Police Station, adding that the
suspects were able to withdraw N100,000 from his First
Bank account before he deactivated all the stolen ATM
cards.
He said two days after the incident, a friend called him
that a car that looked like his own had been put up for
sale.
He said operatives from the SCIID, Yaba, were alerted
and the suspects were rounded up.
The four suspects, who confessed to the crime, said
they operated with knives to avoid bloodshed.
[Source: Metro Plus]
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