The heavily armed bandits, numbering about four stormed the premises of a frontline politician in Lagos, attracting the attention of the state Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko who promptly ordered the officer in charge of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Abba Keyari to go after them. Nemesis later caught up with the suspects as the police eventually apprehended them.
However, later narrating his ordeal, one of the suspects admitted they attacked the politician but not with guns as earlier claimed. He said: “Really, we attacked the man but the man was too strong to defeat. We used pliers to break the kitchen window protector and gained entry. 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. He bit me, his teeth were very sharp. 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… How I managed to escape, I cannot tell. I was half dead when I left the house.
One of the suspects who just regained freedom from the prisons, claimed, “I was only sent to prison for buying a stolen phone but my elder brother later bought my freedom with N200,000.”
Asked why he went back to the same 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.” Busari lamented that the operation did not yield any fruit. “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 prison.”
Confirming their arrest, Lagos State PPRO, Ngozi Braide, said items recovered from them include, one locally-made pistol with six rounds of live cartridges, one HP Laptop, and one Nokia 200.
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