The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos Police Command, in the wee hours of Sunday arrested three ex – convicts for traffic robbery in Oshodi in the state.
The robbery suspects, Adekunle Mustapha, 21, Popoola Olumide, 20 and Femi Amusa, 20, were arrested following the tip off from their victim, Olasunkanmi Oyelakin, who alerted the Police that his blackberry phone was stolen by the suspects during early morning traffic around Bolade, Oshodi.
The victim recounted his ordeals to the Police, “I was on my way to Ajah at about 6:30 a.m, I saw Adekunle Mustapha pass by the bus I boarded. Unknown to me, he was monitoring me. A few minutes later, I noticed a missed call on my phone, and as I brought out the phone, Mustapha took the phone from me through the bus window and ran away. Because there was traffic, I made no attempt to struggle with him, but got down from the nearest bus-stop and I began to monitor him. I noticed that he had regrouped with his friends and one of them was telling him to hand over the phone he stole from me”.
“I knew I couldn’t handle the three of them all alone, so I informed the RRS operatives who followed me down to the place where he was arrested”, Oyelakin explained The visibly distraught Mustapha said that he was driven by frustration to steal the handset from him. “I am a bus conductor in Oshodi. I am from Ibadan and a secondary school dropout. I sleep in Ojuwoye, Mushin’, he said, trembling. I am an ex – convict. I don’t want to go to prison again. Government should please have mercy on me. I was frustrated into traffic robbery. I won’t do it again”, he pleaded.
Mustapha’s accomplices, Popoola Olawale and Femi Amusa said that although they saw Mustapha in Oshodi regularly, they are also bus conductors and not in-traffic robbers. They added that they were in Lagos to make money to buy their working tools having completed their apprenticeship. For more scintillating and juicy stories, follow the official Naijapals accounts On Twitter - https://twitter.com/Naijapals and Facebook - www.facebook.com/naijapals
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Posted: at 16-11-2015 06:05 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
i beliv say u never learn at all. you go bck to prison and learn more. i dnt even knw we nowaday guys dnt want to work wit there two hand to achieve sucess inlife, na only to steal person property then sabi.
Posted: at 16-11-2015 06:20 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
sugarwealth at 16-11-2015 11:20 AM (9 years ago) (f)
You are even an ex convict, I guess the first time u were caught u also told them that u won't do it again. So the prison wey u go before didn't teach u any lesson?
Posted: at 16-11-2015 11:20 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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