A 25 year-old suspect has told the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos,
how he drugged a shop attendant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates before fleeing
with gold trinkets worth about N10.5 million.
The suspect, Hakeem Olakunle, who was arrested recently, also claimed to be an expert in injecting drinks meant for wealthy single ladies before dispossessing them of their cash and valuables.
Olakunle was arrested by policemen led by Superintendent of Police (SP), Abba Kyari, from one of his hideouts in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, after he allegedly drugged and disposed two women who were on a business trip to Dubai of cash and valuables. In his confessional statement to the police, he said he went to Dubai with the aid of criminal friends he met at a drinking joint at Lekki area of Lagos. He said: “I am an expert in administering sleeping tablets to my wealthy female friends before settling down to dispossess them of their belongings.
I learnt the business after I was defrauded by a prostitute who I met in Lagos of close to N1 million meant for my trip to Europe. “I had gone to a club in Lekki in search for a wouldbe victim when I heard some Igbo boys, who just came back from Dubai, discuss one of the fastest and easiest ways to make quick money.
One of them had carelessly dropped the hint that it would be profitable if they were able to recruit any sharp guy that could serve as courier to move drugs from Nigeria to any part of the world and that the more the merrier.
“After I had listened to their discussion, I told them that if they could take me to Dubai that I would help them to steal gold and other valuable trinkets which they could sell above what they were able to make in drug trafficking per trip.”
Olakunle told our correspondent that he travelled to Dubai in January on the invitation of his criminal friends. He added: “On arrival, I was taken to my hotel room in Dubai. I was also told that the streets of Dubai were full of close circuit cameras fitted to monitor the movement of everybody, even criminals. “I was made to understand before I travelled that security in Dubai is very tight and if caught, such a person would end up in jail.
I was also told that stealing is not a bailable offence in Dubai. “The next day, I dressed as a Muslim and I entered one of the shops about 10 minutes to the close of work. While inside the shop, I requested for a cup of coffee. Having being served, I intentionally placed it on the table close to where one of staff attached to the jewellery section of the shop also had his own cup of coffee. I distracted him by splashing some of the content of my cup on his table. “When he was mopping the tea I put some sleeping pills into his own cup of coffee.
None of the workers noticed my movement because every one of them was moving out of the shop since it was time for prayers. I also pretended that I was also leaving but waiting to collect my jewellery which the guy who was my target was trying to wrap.
In less than two minutes, he slumped and I quickly took a pack of the jewellery and walked out of the shop into the waiting car outside the shop. Inside the car they told me that the gold is worth about N10.5 million. Soon after that I came back to Lagos to sell the gold. My share from the deal was N4.8 million. I couldn’t sell it in Dubai so that they will not trace me.”
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The suspect, Hakeem Olakunle, who was arrested recently, also claimed to be an expert in injecting drinks meant for wealthy single ladies before dispossessing them of their cash and valuables.
Olakunle was arrested by policemen led by Superintendent of Police (SP), Abba Kyari, from one of his hideouts in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, after he allegedly drugged and disposed two women who were on a business trip to Dubai of cash and valuables. In his confessional statement to the police, he said he went to Dubai with the aid of criminal friends he met at a drinking joint at Lekki area of Lagos. He said: “I am an expert in administering sleeping tablets to my wealthy female friends before settling down to dispossess them of their belongings.
I learnt the business after I was defrauded by a prostitute who I met in Lagos of close to N1 million meant for my trip to Europe. “I had gone to a club in Lekki in search for a wouldbe victim when I heard some Igbo boys, who just came back from Dubai, discuss one of the fastest and easiest ways to make quick money.
One of them had carelessly dropped the hint that it would be profitable if they were able to recruit any sharp guy that could serve as courier to move drugs from Nigeria to any part of the world and that the more the merrier.
“After I had listened to their discussion, I told them that if they could take me to Dubai that I would help them to steal gold and other valuable trinkets which they could sell above what they were able to make in drug trafficking per trip.”
Olakunle told our correspondent that he travelled to Dubai in January on the invitation of his criminal friends. He added: “On arrival, I was taken to my hotel room in Dubai. I was also told that the streets of Dubai were full of close circuit cameras fitted to monitor the movement of everybody, even criminals. “I was made to understand before I travelled that security in Dubai is very tight and if caught, such a person would end up in jail.
I was also told that stealing is not a bailable offence in Dubai. “The next day, I dressed as a Muslim and I entered one of the shops about 10 minutes to the close of work. While inside the shop, I requested for a cup of coffee. Having being served, I intentionally placed it on the table close to where one of staff attached to the jewellery section of the shop also had his own cup of coffee. I distracted him by splashing some of the content of my cup on his table. “When he was mopping the tea I put some sleeping pills into his own cup of coffee.
None of the workers noticed my movement because every one of them was moving out of the shop since it was time for prayers. I also pretended that I was also leaving but waiting to collect my jewellery which the guy who was my target was trying to wrap.
In less than two minutes, he slumped and I quickly took a pack of the jewellery and walked out of the shop into the waiting car outside the shop. Inside the car they told me that the gold is worth about N10.5 million. Soon after that I came back to Lagos to sell the gold. My share from the deal was N4.8 million. I couldn’t sell it in Dubai so that they will not trace me.”
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