I Use My Okada To Carry Robbers, Teenager Confesses

I use my Okada to carry armed robbers to operations.” This is the confession of 17-year old Sunday Oluwole, a robbery suspect arrested with his accomplice, Segun Akomolafe, 23 at Abule Egba, a surburb of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria after a failed operation.

Narrating his story to P.M.NEWS, the suspect who belongs to a gang of four operating with commercial motorcycles (Okada) to steal at Abule Egba and environs said he used to be an Okada rider before his friend introduced him to robbery.

Explaining the gang’s method of operation, the suspect said: “We always rob shops and business centres. Whenever we are going for operation, I will carry Segun with my Okada while Dare and Elijah will ride another motorcycle. When we get to where we want to rob, I and the other rider will wait outside while Segun and Dare will enter the shop and rob. After robbing the victims, they will rush out and we will start our Okada and escape.”

On how he was caught, he said Segun wasted time in the shop they went to rob and they were caught.

Their victim, a shop owner at Abule Egba, popularly called Iya Ibeji explained that she was cleaning her shop when the suspects entered her shop and asked her to cooperate with them or she will be shot.

Immediately, she disclosed that the suspects removed her gold earrings, necklace and handset, including the money in her drawer.

The victim disclosed that after taking her belongings, the suspects made to escape but she summoned courage and grabbed one of them while her neighbours assisted her in arresting the suspect on Okada.

The others, it was learnt, escaped.

The suspects were taken to the OPC shed at Santos Street, Abule Egba before they were handed over to policemen at the Oko-Oba station.

The station’s DPO, Mr. Omole Ola, confirmed the story, saying items recovered from them include one Bajaj motorcycle with registration number QZ 237 MUS.

—Yusuf Muhammed