Adegoke
Kasali Adegoke, the leader of the armed robbery gang that robbed popular fuji musician, Wasiu Alabi aka Pasuma, of his 2006 Range Rover Sport, says he sold the vehicle for N950,000.
A search on the Internet by our
correspondent, however, suggested that used version of the vehicle sells
for N3.5m, while a new one costs between N8m and N9m.
The 32-year-old, who is currently in
detention at the Special Anti Robbery Squad, Ogun State, said he sold
the car to a receiver at Cotonou.
He said, “I have a receiver at Cotonou
who usually calls to place orders for any type of vehicle that he wants.
Before we stole Pasuma’s car, my buyer had already told me that he
wanted a Range Rover Sport. We were just on the lookout for possible
victims when we noticed Pasuma’s car.”
Although based in Ogun State, Adegoke said he usually comes to Lagos to steal choice vehicles.
On the night Pasuma was robbed, Adegoke
said he was merely roaming the Ahamddiya area of Lagos along with some
members of his gang when the musician was sighted.
PUNCH Metro had on May 29 2013, reported that a nine-man gang attacked the fuji artiste around 9pm, while he was on his way to a show.
Pasuma, who was dispossessed of other
valuables in addition to his car, was said to have hidden his face from
the robbers while the ordeal lasted. He was dumped in a bush near Ota,
Ogun State after being stripped down to his underwear.
Adegoke said, “While he was with us, we
had no idea that he was Pasuma. We did not recognise him. It was the
next day that we realised that it was Pasuma car we snatched the
previous night when the news was all over town.
“By that time, the car was already in
Cotonou. We drove it that same night to a border town in Ogun State
where one of the receiver’s boys was waiting to drive it back to Cotonu.
We were paid N950,000.”
Despite a deformed left hand, Adegoke confessed to having killed over seven policemen during his six-year career as a robber.
The police added that his eight man gang had killed over 20 people.
“I was badly burned as a baby; I was
just 13 days old when someone threw a burning material through the
window on my bed. By the time I was rescued, the left side of my face
and my left hand were badly burned.
“Despite the handicap, I was able to
master the art of shooting with an assault rifle. I would rest the gun
on the ground while I loaded it and would support it with my deformed
hand while I shot,” he said.
The Ogun State Commissioner of Police
Mr. IKemefuna Okoye, had last Monday, paraded Adegoke along with three
other suspects in Abeokuta.
Led by the SARS Officer-in-Charge,
Mohammed Tijani, Adegoke was reportedly arrested in the Obele area, a
border town between Nigeria and Benin Republic. He was said to have been
critically injured in a shoot out with the police.
Adegoke reportedly led the SARS team to arrest other members of his gang at their hideout in the Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State.
Okoye had said that the gang members had
confessed to killing the former South West Coordinator and Ogun State
Commander of the Vehicle Inspection Officer, Mr. Yomi Bamgbose, in 2011,
as well as the killing of five policemen attached to the Quick Response
Squad at the Ijemo Agbadu and Mowe/Ibafo areas one year ago.
The gang was also said to have allegedly
killed about 11 policemen in Kwara and Lagos states and were
responsible for the death of five policemen in the Imeko area of Ogun
State, in a bullion van attack in September 2011.
They were also said to be responsible
for the killing of four members of the Ogun State Vigilance Service and
three filling station attendants in Ifo last June.
PUNCH
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