My father warned me, but I didn't listen - Robbery suspect

My father warned me, but I didn't listen - Robbery suspect

- The suspects were arrested by the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos state police command

- The suspect said he left his father's house after the latter warned him never to use the place for his activities

One of the four suspects arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos state police command for tricking expensive phone sellers to desolate locations has confessed that he was warned by his father.

My father warned me, but I didn't listen - Robbery suspect says
Chukwu and his gang

Chukwu-Emeka Egbemude, 22 and 200 level drop-out of North American University, Cotonu, Benin Republic, was arrested recently in company of three other accomplices, who were fingered in the shooting of a police officer, who attempted to arrest them in one of their botched robbery operations.

Legit.ng learnt that the gang leader, Wilfred Ehis, a chemical engineering graduate of University of Benin, Benin City, Edo state, had in his confessional statement to police stated that his task as the leader of the group was to source for expensive phone sellers on online platforms.

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RRS, in a statement obtained by Legit.ng, said he posed as a lawyer, ordered for expensive phones and accessories before waylaying the delivery man and robbing him of the consignment at a designated location.

Egbemude confessed to the police that all he did since dropping out of school was to pick fraud items for online fraudsters as well as put Ehis through on how to carry out online fraud.

My father warned me, but I didn't listen - Robbery suspect says
The suspects before their arrest

He added that he had been lodging in hotels with Ehis around LASU-Igando area because his father barred him and his elder brother from using his residence as centre for online fraud.

“I dropped out of school not because I wasn’t brilliant but for my inability to pay my school fees. And, since I returned to Nigeria, I started online fraud and picking fraud items for online fraudsters in and out of Nigeria.

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“The first picking job I did was for myself in 2016. Later, I did another job for a ‘Yahoo Boy’ which fetched me $400. I have been into online fraud before I entered school in 2011.

“I have done a lot of transaction for boys including those that involved me travelling out of the country. Everybody in the neighbourhood (Afolabi Bus Stop, LASU-Isheri Road) knows the kind of job that I do.

“I also help ‘Yahoo Boys’ to pick money, expensive wristwatches and rings. I go to bank to pick up the money for them and I get my 10% or 15 percent commission on every transaction. I have helped more than 50 boys doing that kind of transaction.

My father warned me, but I didn't listen - Robbery suspect says
Enjoying themselves in a hotel room days before their arrest

“My father got to know that I was into online fraud because he sees me carrying laptops and heard me whenever I make calls to my victims and trying to sound like an American…. He called me and told me point blank that I should never in my life use his residence for such business. Since 2015, I have been moving with Ehis, lodging from one hotel to the other in LASU-Igando Area,” he added.

According to the report, Nurudeen, alias Onyabo, who is one of the suspects, has the two guns used by the gang and he sneaks into Lagos through the creeks of Ogun whenever they have operations.

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The suspect and the gang leader, Wilfred Ehis and two others, Bright Eloho, 24, and Olanrewaju Kamilu, 33, have been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos for further investigations.

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Source: Legit.ng

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