SUSPECT WHO HIDES PISTOL FOR SNATCHING CARS INSIDE BREAD, SAYS ‘MY FRIEND SAID WE CAN NEVER MAKE IT BIG AS CONDUCTORS’

OSHODI AND SUNDAY

Two commercial bus conductors arrested for car snatching, have confessed that the pistol used in robbery was hidden inside a loaf of bread and brought from Benin to Lagos State.

According to the police, the suspects, John Sunday, 25 and Onyekachi Oshodi, 24  used to snatch vehicles around Agege and Festac areas of the state. The police recovered a pistol from the duo.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, revealed that  the gang and their members specialised in snatching exotics car around the Lagos metropolis.

 Aderanti said the gang met its waterloo after the police got information that gang of armed robbers had converged at a hideout, planning to carry out car snatching operation. He said that the suspects were arrested at their hideout.

Sunday said: “ I’m a bus conductor. I met a guy in the bus where I was working and started chatting with him. We became very close and exchanged phone numbers. A few months later, the guy I met in the bus called me that he would like to see at Benin, Edo State. He said that we needed to work together as a team.

“I didn’t know what he meant. We’ve never discussed what he did for a living. I went to his house at Benin. When I got there, he gave me the pistol. He said we should use it in snatching vehicles in Lagos.

“When I was leaving Benin the following day, I hid the gun inside a loaf of bread. I didn’t want security operatives on the highways to detect it.”

When he got to Lagos, he went to meet his friend Oshodi. He showed him the pistol and explained what transpired in Benin.

 Sunday told Oshodi: “We can use this gun to rob and survive. That was how we started our operations. We’ve hijacked about two cars with gun, and each time we sell the cars, we share the proceeds into three parts.”

Oshodi on his part, said they were arrested at Festac town while they were going for  operation.

 “I was carried away with the love of money. My friend told me that we can never make it big in life doing conductor work. I wanted to make quick money.”