32-year-old suspect, Sunday Ajewole a father of three who was arrested alongside three suspected members of a notorious robbery gang that had been terrorizing Lagos and its environs has confessed to being the actual person behind several criminal activities in the state.
During interrogation at the Special Anti-Robbery Sqaud, Ikeja, Lago, he disclosed that he usually hid the gang’s weapons in an uncompleted building in Ayobo area of Lagos state, each time they are done with a particular operation.
Earlier investigations had revealed that Ajewole, who dropped out from the Osun State College of Technology, was a member of the Aiye confraternity.
The police had also revealed that the gang members have allegedly participated in several operations, where vehicles were snatched from their unsuspecting owners at gun point.
It was also alleged that they have been responsible for some of the bank robberies in the state, and had as well attacked Bureau-de-change operators in Lagos and Ondo states on several occasions.
Police sources revealed that, “the gang robbed a bank in Ondo state recently and a bureau de- change office in Ayobo”.
Report says they were arrested after the Lagos State Police Command was informed about their hideout somewhere around Gowon estate.
An operation by the police in Gowon estate, Egbeda, resulted into the arrest of three suspected members of the gang and the recovery of three operational vehicles suspected to have been stolen from unsuspecting victims.
Following their concessionary statement, operatives were led to a social gathering at Ayobo,where Ajewole, said to be spraying money on the celebrant was arrested.
Ajewole had in a new concessionary statement said he had turned a new person as he is now anointed in the cell to become a Pastor.
Hear him: “ I know I have sinned . But God has forgiven me. Today, I am a changed man. I am not only born again, I am one of the Pastors in the cell! If I come out of this alive, I am going to continue preaching the gospel of God.
‘’Yes! I was once a cultist. But that belongs to the past because God has forgiven me.
“I joined the cult four years ago after my friend, Tunde, initiated me. I was compelled to join because business was no more booming. I own a house in Ayobo, a suburb of Iyana Ipaja,which was built ten years ago, while I was working in a filling station. Three years ago, I sold my golf car and used the proceeds to build a shop in front of my house.
“I went into supply of kerosene and diesel in Ayobo area of Lagos. But all of a sudden, things began to fall apart.
“I was arrested because my friend Omoloja, (one of the suspects) brought a gun to the Aiye confraternity temple in Isefun Ayobo. Omoloja is a land grabber, he is also a member of our cult . When I asked him how he got the gun, he said it was meant for security purpose.
‘’Owing to the fact that I was the third in command, the gun was kept in my possession. I kept it in an uncompleted building. But I never went to any operation with them. My involvement is simply because I kept their weapons”.
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