Police arrests robbery suspect who drugs victims

The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended a member of a two man robbery gang, Ifeanyi Chizoba. The gang were reputed to specialise in drugging victims before dispossessing them of cash and valuables. The suspect, a 29-year-old native of Anambra State-born, confessed he has been into the act since 2012, adding that he has victimised over 100 people, including commercial sex workers and traders. He said: “My friend, Obi, introduced me to it in 2012 and as at that time, our targets were traders at Alaba International Market. Usually, we would buy sachets of Actifed and Lexotan tablets, grind them together and put them inside sachet water, produced by us“. Speaking further, he said they will then board a bus to Alaba with the traders, from Mile Two. “We have members of our gang who sell sachet water and they are usually positioned along our route especially where we are sure to be held by traffic. We usually buy more than one sachet of water as we are sure there will be someone seated close who may be thirsty. We offer them and the moment they sip from it, they sleep off and then we carry out our plot”. Chizoba added that they either take the trader’s purse, or alight at the nearest stop and offload his goods because they always take note of the owner’s goods while boarding. Speaking on the last operation that led to his arrest, he said: “I went to a shop in Festac town over the weekend, in the company of a gang member, Mr. Aloysius. He was watching my back whilst I was pretending to make enquirers from the shop attendant. I then blew a powdery substance wrapped in a handkerchief into the air, which put the shop owner to sleep”. “I went straight to the safe box, emptied all the money into my bag and in a bid to carry one of the washing machines, the shop owner woke up and raised an alarm, which attracted residents”. Aloysius managed to escape, leaving Chizoba in the den of a team of policemen from Festac Division, led by the Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Ifeanyi Owo.

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