The suspect, Adekanmi Najim, 25, was arrested on January 28, 2015 by policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command.
Suspected armed robber had policemen laughing when he confessed that one of the bags he and his gang snatched a bag from a victim, thinking they had hit big money, turned out to contain faeces and afemale adult pant.The suspect, Adekanmi Najim, 25, was arrested on January 28, 2015 by policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command. Najim was arrested at Oshodi.
Aside from Najim, the other gang members were simply identified as Sunday and Taye. Najim said Sunday and Taye introduced him to robbery.
Najim noted that it was during the last operation of the gang that they snatched a woman’s bag containing baby’s diaper filled with faeces.Najim said: “In our last operation before we were arrested, we snatched a woman’sbag.
We thought the bag was filled with money and other valuables, so we decided to close early that day and went home to share our loot. We were shocked to find baby poo and the woman’s pant inside the bag.
”The gang’s waterloo started after the members went to have a nice time at Mushin and decided to go for an operation at the Oshodi area at night.When policemen sighted three men on motorbike, they flagged them.
But rather than halt, the rider attempted toescape.The rider and his motorbike crashed.While Sunday and Taye disappeared into the night, Najim was not so lucky.Najim was arrested and a gun recovered from him.He was later used as bait to arrest Sunday and Taye.
According to the police, Najim, a commercial motorcyclist robber, and his gang members had been terrorising Lagos and Ogun States axis for long.The gang’s hideout is Mushin.Najim confessed that he had once been arrested and even sent to prison for threatening a man who had Se.x with his girlfriend.
He was only released in December and apparently is on his way to prison again if he is found guilty for robbery by a competent court.Najim said:
“We’ve snatched three motorbikes in Sango-Ota Ogun State. We’ve also snatched bags and other valuable goods from people. We usually sell the motorbikes to a man called Baba Ijora in Mushin.
We also have another buyer at Cotonou. We sold the first motorbike to a man in Cotonou at the rate of N35,000 while the second and third were sold to Baba Ijora at the rate of N30,000 and N40,000.”
