A suspected robber, Kudus Yunus, has been arrested by the police for allegedly carjacking about seven vehicles in different parts of Lagos State.
He was apprehended alongside two car dealers, Abdulbasit Mohammed and Tony Nwadia; a suspected smuggler, Kazeem Aluko, a Customs agent, Joseph Oyeniyi and two alleged gunrunners, Chigozie Odinaka and Ahmed Adebayo.
One Abudulahi Mohammed and Nasiru Mohammed, accused of receiving some of the stolen automobiles, have been additionally nabbed through operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team.
Yunus reportedly specialised in carjacking Toyota Corolla cars at gunpoint and had operated in regions including Palmgroove, Yaba and Festac Town.
Police alleged that Oyeniyi assisted in forging the Customs obligation papers and chassis numbers of the stolen vehicles
City Round learnt that the detectives tracked down Yunus after one of his victims, Odusoya Oluwadare, pronounced that the suspect robbed him of his Toyota Corolla with the wide variety plate EPE 627 GE, a sum of N150,000 and a wristwatch on St. Finbarr College Road, Yaba, round eleven.30pm on December 14, 2020.
It turned into gathered that Yunus led the operatives to the Alakija area of the nation where Abdullahi and Nasiru have been picked up.
Yunus, 28, explained that he went into armed theft out of frustration as he couldn't fend for his spouse and children after two bikes he used for business purposes had been seized successively by way of policemen attached to the Lagos State Task Force.
The father of three stated he commenced with telephone snatching in 2017 and graduated to carjacking with the help of 1 Emma Peter however became arrested in 2018 by men of the Rapid Response Squad and charged.
He stated, “I might spot a vehicle and follow it to wherever it stopped. Then I might factor my gun on the owner and rob him of the automobile. Emma Peter related me to at least one Ibrahim, who was my motorcycle man. We robbed the primary Toyota Corolla in Festac Town. I offered the auto to at least one Isiaku who came all the manner from Sokoto State for N300,000.
“I additionally snatched every other Corolla at Festac Town and offered it to at least one Musa for N250,000. After I become launched from prison in 2020, I went returned into theft and stole two more Toyota Corolla vehicles at Stadium Road and Onipanu areas of the state.
“I sold them to 1 Ajala who I met in Ikoyi Prison. I additionally stole two other cars from Palmgroove and Adekunle areas of Lagos State and sold them to Nasiru and Abudullahi for N250,000 and N320,000 respectively. I had decided to cease the ‘activity’ due to the fact my spouse turned into complaining and threatened to divorce me once I turned into arrested.”
Nasiru, 36, stated his friend, Abdullahi, persuaded him to shopping for stolen automobiles, including that he bought the 2 he bought from Yunus to Abdulbasit and one Ibrahim for N850,000 and N600,000 respectively.
He stated, “I am a dismissed soldier and had been impersonating a serving military lieutenant. Abudullahi is my friend and accomplice and we usually proportion the income from the bought vehicles.”
Abdulbasit, forty one, admitted shopping for the stolen car from Nasiru while additionally supporting him to falsify Customs responsibility files and chassis numbers on the rate of N120,000 consistent with vehicle.
He added, “I gave the stolen car to Tony (Nwadia) to assist promote it at his vehicle mart in Festac Town.”
But Nwadia stated he become no longer aware that a automobile Abdulbasit added to his facility become stolen, as it had a purported Customs paper.
He stated, “He informed me that the importer is a dealer at Ladipo Market. I believed him and allowed him to area the automobile in my stand.”
Narrating how he falsified the documents, Johnson Oyeniyi, 33, said, “I am a Customs licensed clearing agent. I use the photocopies of the original papers to create the faux ones. I fee N10,000 in step with automobile however the one that were given me into trouble turned into introduced to me by way of Kazeem (Aluko). I didn’t realize that the cars were stolen. I concept they have been smuggled.”
Aluko, 36, stated he took 3 vehicles to Oyeniyi at the preparation of Abdulbasit, claiming that he did no longer recognise the cars had been stolen.
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