Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team have smashed a robbery gang which specialised in robbing women of expensive vehicles in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

Three members of the gang arrested by the police were identified as Ego Ike, Obinna Igwe and Adamu Nuhu.

The suspects usually took the stolen vehicles to Niger Republic, where they sold them.

It was gathered that the police went after the gang members after they allegedly stole a 2016 Toyota Corolla from an official of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, who was on her way home from work.

One of the suspects, Ike, told PUNCH during the week that he joined the gang after he lost a sum of N6m he had invested in clothing business to gambling.

He said,

“I was a spare parts dealer at the Ladipo Market, Lagos, but I moved to Abuja in search of greener pastures. When I couldn’t achieve much, I pressured my father to sell his only land in the village and he used the money to send me to Istanbul, Turkey.

“I worked in Istanbul for three years and saved close to N6m which I used to start a clothing business in Nigeria. In 2016, one of my friends introduced me to online sports betting, and I lost all my money. I met one Linus in Abuja and we became friends. He introduced me to a robbery gang. We stole a Toyota RAV4 from a woman who was driving to her house on Shafar Road, Abuja and we took the car to Kaduna. We sold it to one Mallam Nuhu for N200,000.”

He stated that his gang also carjacked a Toyota Matrix from a woman and sold it in Kaduna for N270,000, adding that they usually targeted women to avoid resistance.

Ike, who hails from Anambra State, also admitted to have participated in the operation in which the FIRS official’s car was stolen.

He said,

“We took the car that night to Niger Republic, but at the Katsina border, Linus and I came down from the car while Yellow and a man took the car into Niger Republic. Unfortunately, Nigerien police arrested them. We target wmen because we don’t use guns and women won’t resist us. We go for Toyota vehicles because we easily find buyers for them.”

Nuhu, a native of Kaduna State, said he took to robbery when he was 17. He said he got a master key he used to steal some cars from one MD in Kaduna.

Credit: Punch
Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/i-became-robber-after-i-lost-n6m.html
Mynd44
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this one na ZO BIA matter o

You became a robber because you chose to be a robber. Simple!!!!

Deal with him as deserved!

There shouldn't be any excuse to justify criminal acts!

Nonesense and NairaMarley.

It is just so sad seeing people trying to give excuse for their evil deeds. Robbing people is a big crime, a real offender is one that doesn't show any remorse to any of his crimes.

People like this doesn't deserve any iota of pity, you had a choice to make and you chose death, deal with it!!! and shut up!!!

His story will tell you he lacked character that's why he hardly steady himself in one useful thing. From Ladipo, to pressuring dad to sell land, to going to TURKEY, to coming back, to gambling away his capital, and to robbery. Very useless person.

Bet9ja again?

have you not seen your mates making it big with sports betting, what you dnt knw, dnt fkrce self......if e work for mr A, no mean say he go work for mr. B.......it's best the Nigerian judicial system is tampered small to accomodate the death penalty.....enforce and implement this law n you will see how crime rates will reduce...

The truth is that, whatever money he realised from this theft would still be lost to gambling.

It's a cyclic circle.