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A suspected robber has revealed that he and his gang
members took oath never to kill any policeman because they too have families
and dependent. This was even as he added that he used to give policemen and soldiers’
money after every successful operation because their ‘take home pay is poor.
The suspect, Tunde Aribisala, 33, alia 2 minute’,
who has been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS), Lagos
State Police Command, while chatting with journalists said: “I’m an easy going
person. I’m very quiet and humble, but very dangerous at any robbery
operation. I’ve never killed a police
man or a soldier. I give them money any day I succeed in operation because
their take home pay is poor!’’
Aribisala confessed that his three children; two boys
and a girl attend the best popular private school in Ikoyi, adding with pride
ringing in his voice that the kids were all brilliant. He said he had deposited
a substantial amount of money for his children education, which he believed
would take care of them and their mother.
He said: “My beautiful wife does not know that I’m a
robber. She thinks I’m a car dealer. I have a car stand in Lagos, Ibadan,
Kwara, and Lekki. But nobody know that I snatched cars and also robbed innocent
Nigerians.’’
Explain why his gang refused to kill uniform
personnel, Aribisala said: “We could have killed a lot of policemen, especially
during robbery operations. But we took oath in our gang never to kill any
policeman. We took that oath because we agreed in our gang that they are human
beings like us and also have dependents like us.”
Aribisala who claimed that his gang only uses toy
guns for robbery operation, moments after insisting they his gang members did
not use to kill policemen, said that the gang loved snatching vehicles that
belonged to corporate companies because such cars, “sells like sachet water.”
Aribisala, said greed and poverty forced him into
armed robbery and car snatching.
The suspect was arrested after a tip-off by a police
informant. The gang was in a middle of a tense argument when police burst into
the gathering. There was a heavy shoot out.
Recalling how he was arrested, Aribisala said: “The
person leading had been killed in one of our operations. We needed someone to
replace him. This was the argument we were having when the police stormed our
hideout. The gang leader was killed by policemen. His death made us to start
discussing the rationale in not killing policemen when they are killing our members
and are ready to kill us. We were also arguing on how to share the N5m we
snatched at the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way. In the heat of the argument, one of
our members brought out a Pump action gun, threatening to kill any one who objected
to him being the boss. Suddenly, policemen burst into their midst in a movie
style. We were all shocked.”
Aribisala said gang members who tried to shoot the
policemen, were gunned down. “What saved me was the fact that I quickly raised
my hands in surrender.”
The suspect said he was a member of the National
Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), during the reign of Alhaji Saka Saula.
He added that after Saula was assassinated by opposition,
he decided to go solo and be on his own.
Aribisala, who resides in the Ipaja area of the
metropolis, said nobody in his vicinity knew he was an armed robber.
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