How ladies help bandits in robbing commuters

A daring female member of a robbery gang has revealed how she used to hood wink victims into entering the gang’s operational vehicle, thinking it was a commercial one before they rob the victim.

Amodu Victoria, 27, from Benin, Edo State said: “During any robbery operation, I would dress casually and sit in the front beside the driver.

Our vehicles usually plied Seme/Lagos routes. The passengers we pick, on sighting me in the vehicle will board without suspicion.

“The driver would receive a signal from the other vehicles where the gang members were, and we would stop at a lonely bushy area and rob our victims.

“After the robbery, the vehicles would zoom off to another area entirely to pick a fresh round of passengers. From each of the operations, they gave me N15, 000 and later N10, 000.

“I met the gang in May this year. It was one gang member named Okanlawon who came to the hotel, and took me out for the night. He then introduced their work to me, and said I would be needful for their operations. I’m not the only lady the gang use for robbery.”

Amodu, who said she earlier had a quarrel with her husband in Benin, added that she took to commercial sex work as a result of poverty.

According to the police, the syndicate is a five-man gang, who operated between Seme and Lagos.

It was further learnt that the gang, which uses Mazda, Mitsubishi and Golf vehicles for their operations, were always armed with guns.

The police said one of the operational vehicles of the gang had been recovered.

Aside from Victoria, another member presently at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command is Ahmed Isiaka, 33.

Isiaka said he was a commercial driver before joining the gang. The gang was arrested last week Wednesday, September 10.

Isiaka and Victoria allegedly belonged to a gang of robbers who were notorious for picking unsuspecting passengers in flashy cars, and robbing them in dark corners at gunpoint.

Police said that Victoria was arrested at a hotel in Seme, near Badagry where she was plying her ‘trade’.

Isiaka added:  “We operate in Iyana Oba, Badagry and Agbara areas. We have gone out on about five occasions. I was first arrested by the Ojo Police Division, before my case was transferred to SARS. I was given N10, 000 in each of the operations.”