A naval rating has been arrested for leading a five-man-gang of robbers in an operation that would have fetched them N20 million.
The naval rating, Lawal Allie, 28,
said he had been dismissed by the Nigerian Navy, but police investigators said
they were still looking into his claims.
Allie however admitted to have led Babagana
Muhammed, Muhammed Yinusa, Bello Umaru, Muhammed Tasiru and Abdullahi Bundi in
hijacking a trailer loaded with roofing sheets and rods valued at N20m.
They were arrested by policemen
attached to the Department of Operations around Isheri-Berger area on the
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The truck, marked LSD782XB, was
hijacked by the suspects around Navy Town, Kirikiri, Apapa area of Lagos on
November 14. They were later transferred
to SARS.
The hijacked truck, driven by one Mr. Ganiyu
Mustapha, was conveying iron sheets and rods to Apapa, when the suspects hijacked
it. They were moving the truck through the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when police
flagged them.
Allie who claimed that would the
second robbery he had coordinated, said that one Alhaji Ibrahim gave the gang
information about the truck.
Allie said: “It was Ibrahim gave who
gave us instruction to transport the truck to a buyer in Ifo, Ogun State.”
Police detectives said that the
first operation of the gang was the hijacking of a truck loaded with bags of
rice.
Recalling how they abandoned the
truck loaded with bags of rice, Allie said: “The truck which was loaded with bags
of rice developed fault on the road. Some officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management
Authority came to us. We didn’t want them to suspect anything and quickly gave
them N8, 000 for ‘settlement’. That was how they allowed us to go.”
The Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, who confirmed the arrest, said investigations
were ongoing on the matter at SARS.
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