POLICE ARRESTS FIVE TRANS-BORDER ROBBERS
Lagos State Police Command early Monday morning arrested five trans-border robbery gang led by a Cameroonian born, Ahmed Ibrahim, 33, while fleeing into Lagos after robbing an Ogun State-based Haulage Company’s warehouse.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, speaking on the arrest, stated that the robbers were intercepted at Toll Gate border of Lagos and Ogun State by a patrol team of Rapid Response Squad stationed in the area, but following the refusal to stop the robbers were pursued and caught by the RRS at Meiran Junction, Lagos.
He said apart from Ahmed Ibrahim, four other members of the gang equally arrested include, Kelechi Nebu (30), Ndueso Sunday (45), Tochukwu Egemuka (33) and Obinna Oforkaja (30).
Items recovered from the robbers included: one Volvo truck with registration number KRD 515 XR, 13 units of truck tyres, one refrigerator, 26 gallons of four-litre engine oil, 24 kegs of 25 litres of engine oil, two batteries, assorted charms, one cutlass and two knives.
According to the haulage company’s security guard, Kenny Peters, “I was doing the rounds when they held me from the back. They wanted to shoot me first but one of them cautioned that they shouldn’t kill me. They macheted me in the forehead and beat me with all manners of rods including truck wheel spanners. They tied my hands to the back and carried me to one fence, thinking that I was dead.”
“They looted the company’s store and were set to go when I woke up. I hung on to the back of the truck from Dalemo, Sango Ogun State to Toll Gate, where I saw RRS Team. I alerted them and they chased the truck to Meiran Junction, where they were forced to stop. Four of them fled while five were arrested”, he added.
According to sources within the company, the leader of the gang, Ahmed Ibrahim, was the brother of the haulage firm’s former security guard, who in a similar operation stole about 100 truck tyres from the company in August 2018.
On interrogation, the leader of the gang confessed to having recruited one Obinna, who mobilized seven more robbers for the operation.
Police have already arrested the driver of the truck, Kudus Adebayo (33), while an investigation is ongoing to arrest other members of the gang at large.