Robbers kill ASP over wife-snatching

By Juliana Francis
Fresh facts have finally emerged on how Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mr. Orubabe John was killed by a robber whose wife he snatched.
Tragically, the angry robber did not only killed John, but also shot and killed John’s daughter who was then a serving youth corps member.
John was killed in December 2012, but recent events had further cleared the air, following his second wife’s (robber’s wife) confessions.
Nobody was sure who slain the anti-robbery man until his ‘wife’ confession. Police have now embarked on a man hunt for the robber and his gang.
Trouble for John and his subsequent death started after the Asp, who was the Officer in Charge of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), attached to Area F Police Command,Lagos state, with his team, arrested a suspected robber.
It was gathered that the area commander, ordered John to charge the suspect to court, but John had failed to carry out the commander’s order. And the commander was none the wiser.
While the suspect was detained in cell, his wife used to bring him food. By then, the suspect and John had also started negotiating for his bail term.
John saw the woman and allegedly fell in love. He started making love advances, in spite of knowing her husband was in his custody.
Apparently the woman told her husband, who, afraid he might not be released by John, told his wife to welcome the policeman’s love advances.
John did not only start having an affair with the woman, he later married her and got an apartment for her. Thu he started running two homes.
After collecting N1.5million from the suspected robber, he allowed him to walk.
John’s new wife had already given birth to two children before the ASP met his brutal death.
A police said: “On the fateful day that he was killed, he went to his second wife’s place. In the middle of the night, he woke up and went to his first wife’s place. They were sleeping at night when their generating set went off. They were all surprised because the generator had been filled to the brim with fuel before they went to bed. He has three children from his first wife.
“The first child was a girl, who had graduated and was even then serving. It was the girl who went down to check on the generator. Immediately she reached there, she noticed three men and attempted to run back into the house, shouting armed robbers! Armed robbers! They shot her in the back.
“The shout had already attracted her father, ASP John, who rushed out with his service pistol. He shot into the darkness and watched but there was nobody. There was silence. He didn’t know that the robbers were hiding. As soon as he stepped further out, they shot him repeatedly and left. The daughter did not die immediately. She died on the way to hospital.”
It was heard that policemen carried the corpse of the slain officer to his village, but his kin men took the corpse from the police and asked the police to leave, that they would bury John according to tradition.
The tradition entails participation of John’s two wives. Weeks after the traditional burial, his second wife, had a psychotic breakdown and soon singing like a bird.
She confessed it was her husband, the robber who killed John. According to her, she and the robber loved each other, but John used his police power to come between them and snatched her from her husband.
She insisted that she had never been happy with John, adding that the two children John thought she had for him, were biological children of her robber husband. It seemed that she had still been seeing the robber, even though she was married to John.
She further said that the plan was to kill John at her apartment, but she kicked against the idea, suggesting the home of the first wife, so that suspicion would not fall on her.