A robbery suspect, Ikemachukwu Obiora, 31, claimed that his gang used to get information for robbery operations by listening to people’s conversations while making calls at ‘call centres’.
Obiora added that most robbery operations carried out by his gang were through information gathered at places people make phone calls. According to him, they used to loiter at call centres, pretending to be waiting to make phone calls, while they listen to callers.
The suspect said that the robbery operations he had participated at Gbagada area, fetched him N800,000, before his arrest. He said: “My regret is that I will not enjoy my shares from our robbery operations because SARS has now arrested me.” Obiora confessed that the first thing he stole at the age of 13 was a big goat in his village before he graduated to robbery.
He also claimed that most of the money he made from robbery operations were given to widows and aged women because he was concerned about their plight. Obiora, who was arrested on a tip-off by detectives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos, said he used to reside at Gbagada and was part of the gang which had been terrorising the area for long. He said: “I started stealing at the age of 13 in Awka, Anambra State.
My first attempt as a thief was to steal our neighbour’s goat in the village during Christmas.” The suspect said he had participated in several criminal activities in Lagos, Ogun, and Osun states. According to him, he relocated to Lagos a few years ago and started living with a friend at the Oworoshoki area of the metropolis. Obiora said that his friend worked in one of the private companies in Ikeja.
“My friend did not know I was a thief until police arrested me in the area for snatching a BlackBerry phone. It was that incident that made police charged me to court. I was even sent to Kirikiri Prison,” he added. The suspect explained that a few months later, he was released by a chief judge.
But according to him, he did not have anywhere to stay after his release and life became tough, to the extent that he could not afford three square meals.
“While I was thinking of what to do next, I ran into one of my old friends. I used to know him way back in Anambra State. It was through him that I joined another gang of robbers and later became the second in command,” he recalled.
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