The love of women seems to be the motivating factor which pushed a suspected criminal into robbery. The suspect, Sunday Adewole, now in the custody of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos, said that he so much loved women that he spent almost all the money he made from robbery on them.
Adewole and his partner in crime, Nurudeen Adeyoju, were arrested while robbing a female cement dealer at Ijaiye-Ojokoro area of the Lagos metropolis.
The suspects would have got away with the robbery, but for the victim’s sales girl, identified as Peju, who walked in during the robbery. On seeing the robbers’ guns, Peju screamed, which alerted the people nearby.
According to the suspects, they mostly target women cement dealers, but sometimes attack and rob trailer drivers. After their arrest, police recovered two guns from them.
Adewole confessed that after operation, he used his money for ‘enjoyment.’ The suspect said there was no woman on earth he could not sleep with, as long as he wanted her. According to him, every woman has a price tag. He said: “I once gave a woman N300,000, just because I wanted to sleep with her. I was determined to have her.
“I also spend my money on hotels. I have a particular hotel I stay at Mushin. I can stay there for three months. I pay N35,000 per day.” Describing how they used to target and rob the women cement dealers, Adeyoju said he and other gang members, now still at large, would go to Ijaiye- Ojokoro to watch the women make their sales.
The gang, he added, would pay special attention to the amount of money some women sell for that day as well as where the women keep the money.
“The dealers used to keep money in car boots. The suspects monitor those with a lot of sales. Adewole is the motorcycle rider for the gang. He has a locally-made gun.
“Once the road is free, the gang goes straight to the dealer. The gang will whip out gun and demand for the trader’s money,” a police source said. Investigators disclosed that the gang used to attack the women every month.
“They also rob trailer drivers and conductors who parked along the road at night. If they make enough money from the cement dealers, they won’t rob for the next three months.
The biggest money they had made from robbing cement dealers in a particular month was N3.4 million,” another police source said. But Adeyoju said the gang used part of the money to buy three motorcycles specifically for robbery.
The number plates of the operational motorcycles were turned upside down, so that policemen would not be able to detect the numbers. The suspects disclosed that when the Lagos State Government banned the operations of commercial motorcycles, they decided to rent an apartment near Ijaiye, the base of their operations. Aside from robbing the women of their money, they also used to snatch their gold jewellery.
They sell the cheapest gold taken from the women for N160,000. “Once we enter a cement shop, we would order all the people in the shop to lie face down. We will collect the money and ride away on our motorcycle,” Adeyoju said. The gang met its waterloo after it robbed a cement dealer and not satisfied with dispossessing her of N200,000, it started to search her handbag, looking for gold jewellery.
Adeyoju said: “I had already collected N200,000 and was searching for more money and gold when one of her salesgirls walked in.” According to the police, the salesgirl, Peju, walked into the shop and noticed that her boss was facing the wall, while Adeyoju was behind her.
“The woman was shouting Jesus! Jesus! The salesgirl thought her madam was praying. It was when she noticed the suspect, Adeyoju, searching her madam’s handbag that she knew the woman was being robbed. The suspect did not know Peju was behind him, until she asked what was going on. Adeyoju turned round and pointed his gun at her.
A police source said: “Scared at seeing the gun, Peju took off shouting. Even when Adeyoju ordered her to stop or he would shoot, she did not hear or could not obey. Adeyoju ran out of the shop and jumped on the motorcycle manned by Adewole who had heard the commotion and had started the motorcycle, ready to zoom off.
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