An armed robbery suspect has his
story on how he escaped death in the hands of his victim.
A four-armed robbery gang had invaded the
premises of a powerful politician in Lagos. The incident got to the attention
of the state Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko who ordered the officer in
charge of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Abba Keyari to fish out the
hoodlums. The police succede in arresting the suspects. One of the suspects in
an interview with Crimewatch denied using gun to attack the politician.
He said: “Trully, we attacked the
man but the man was too strong to defeat. We used pliers to break the kitchen window
protector and entered . We started packing his laptop, phones and other
things.” “As we were packing his things, the man woke up and grabbed me. He was
too strong for me to handle, so he started beating me. He did not stop at
hitting me,the annoying part is that he also bit me.
His teeth were shaper than knife.the
robber exclaimed.He was biting me like a wounded lion. In fact, that man is a
lion. He is too powerful. As he was hitting and biting me, I was shouting for
help but my colleagues abandoned me because they never wanted to be the man’s
victim. “How I managed to escape, I cannot tell.I think it is God’s doing.
When I left the house. If the man
had beaten me more than he did, I would have died. He is too strong so
especially his teeth, that is why I am saying [No] to the claim by the police
that we were armed, if we had a gun, we would have fired him, rather we escaped
from him.” Showing some wounds on his body, he said, “look at my body, all the
injuries were from the man. He even injured me on my penis.the robber cried out
On who owned the locally made pistol
the police claimed they recovered from him, he said: “I am not saying that I
don’t have a gun at home,but i dont use it for robbery.I use it to protect my
self.
For that robbery, I swear to my ancestors, we
did not use gun that day.” His suspected accomplice, Sheidu Busari, who the
police named as the leader of the gang, corroborated Jimo’s story, “we did not
use gun that day but my friend Jimo has a gun, but we did not go with it that
fateful day. We only used big pliers to break through the window.
We gained entry but when the man
grabbed Jimo, and he was shouting like a baby, I thought the man has stabbed
him or had charmed him so I took to my heels. I did not know it was ordinary
biting that was scaring Jimo. Jimo (Jamio) used to be strong that was why I was
confused and scared when he was crying like a baby.”
Busari who was just released from
the prisons for the same armed robbery, said “I was only sent to prison for
buying a stolen phone but my elder brother later bailed me with N200,000.”
On why he went back to crime he
said, “don’t you know that Christmas is fast approaching. I need money for
Christmas so, when we got information that the man we attacked was wealthy, I
had no alternative than to go for the robbery.”
He regretted that the operation was
not all that successful. “I swear, the robbery was a bad one. We did not make
money, yet, it brought another trouble to me. See now, I will be spending the
Christmas in the prison.”
Lagos State police spokesperson,by
name Ngozi Braide, said one locally-made pistol with six rounds of live
cartridges, one HP Laptop, and one Nokia 200 were recovered from the suspects.
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