A certain 32-year-old man identified as Akiri-Kemepamini Wisdom, who allegedly participated in a bank robbery in the FESTAC area of Lagos state, has been arrested by the state police command.
DAILY POST recalls that on Wednesday, October 14, the said robbery gang stormed two commercial banks in FESTAC Town during which a mother and her child were shot dead.
Subsequently, one Diokoro Chinedu alongside Wisdom, were apprehended by the Igando Police Division along the LASU-Iba Road and 86 bullets, the sum of N134,6 75, an AK-49 rifle, a Nigerian Army cap and a T-shirt with the inscription, ‘Gallant Patrol’, were recovered from them.
The police revealed that the duo who were on an unregistered motorcycle, were arrested during a stop-and-search, while a third suspect, also on the motorcycle, escaped. A bag was said to have been recovered from them also.
Wisdom, a native of Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, said he and the runaway suspect were given an instruction by their boss, identified simply as TK, to take the bag to a man, whose name he claimed not to know.
Wisdom, confessing before newsmen, said: “I am a fisherman. It was my friend, Kinikini, who carried the bag. We were told by our boss to deliver the bag to another man. I am an errand boy to the gang leader. He and his boys stay in the creeks. He has many guns and I do not know how many he uses for operation.
“They usually give me about N4,000 for such delivery. Now that I have been arrested, I know I am dead because they will be trailing me thinking I have leaked their secrets to the police.”
Chinedu, an Imo State indigene on his part, denied being aware of the contents of the bag, saying he was just a victim of circumstances.
“If I was aware of what my passengers were carrying, I would not have taken them. I am an okada rider in Victory Estate, in the Iba area. I picked the two men around Monkey Village bus stop. They said I should take them to Iyana School. When we got there, they said I should take them to Igando.
“On the way, we met policemen on stop-and-search. If I knew they had such weapons in their bag, I wouldn’t have stopped for the policemen, but I didn’t know what was in the bag.
“When the policemen asked them what was inside the bag, they couldn’t answer. When one of the policemen touched the bag, he said what he touched felt like a gun.
“I told the policeman to hold them responsible because they owned the bag and that I was just an okada rider.
“The police have searched my house but they didn’t find anything. I am innocent. If God should save me from this trouble, I will never ride okada again,” Chinedu sobbed.
Parading the suspects at the Command, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni said they were assisting the police with investigations.
According to him, “One of them is an errand boy to the kingpin of the gang that carried out the bank robbery in FESTAC recently. He is helping us with our investigations.
“They actually attempted to drop the bag and run away, but they were arrested,” Owoseni added.
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