A gang of suspected robbers, arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State Command have told the police why they don’t have sex with any woman before embarking on robbery operation.
Two of the suspects, who led to the arrest of other members of the gang, are Kayode Oduto and Quadri Lateef.
Two suspected robbers were arrested after a housewife bathe one of them with hot water, when they attempted to rob her home at the Kola-Kollington area of the state Alagbando, Lagos State.
After the woman bathe Oduto with hot water on his face, her husband pinned him down and dispossessed him of his gun. His partner, Lateef, bolted, abandoning him to his fate. The police used both men to catch others and vanquished the gang.
According to them, the brain behind their robbery operation is T. Money, other name yet unknown, now in police custody.
A police source said: “We discovered that their hideout is at Agboyi, Alapere, where T.money rented a house. The place is an Island. You’ll use boat to get to the house. They always stay there on Saturdays and Sundays for operations, to disperse on Mondays. T.money has all their contacts and code names. They don’t go out on weekdays for operations, except on special occasions. Once T.money calls, he would simply say, ‘Ishe-wa,’ and the members will gather at Agboyi by8pm.
“A standby boat is always waiting to take them to the Island once they’re through with operation. If they lodge in a hotel before going for an operation, they don’t go back to the hotel, but head to Agboyi. They don’t sleep with women before embarking on operation. That’s the law of the gang laid down by T,money, apparently given by the herbalist in Badagry. It could lead to their downfall.”
T. Money is alleged to be the leader of the seven-gang of armed robbers. He finances the gang and also is in charge of keeping their guns.
After his arrest, Lateef, singing like a bird, told police that they could get T.Money and other members at Agboyi.
Lateef reportedly said: “We normally use canoe to cross water, to get to our hideout. We have spies everywhere. If police enter the Island, T.Money would know immediately. T.Money is not just our leader; he is also the receiver of whatever we robbed. After every robbery operation, we’ll share money. But items like handbags, phones, jewelry would be handed over to T. Money. He’ll be the one to dispose of them. We accept any amount he gives us. Any of us who argues with him, would be in trouble!”
According to Lateef, before any operation, T.money would go to the Badagry area of the state, to meet an herbalist who used to tell them whether to go for an operation or not.
“If T.money says, ‘Road no good,’ there won’t be any operation,” recounted Lateef. “Any robbery operation that T.money doesn’t go with us always ends in disaster. Either we would lose a member or the operation would be botched.”
The suspect said the gang relied on T.money for successful operations and worshipped him like a god.
Lateef and Kayode further confessed that the gang had only shot a victim once at the Apapa area of the metropolis, during an operation.
A week after the shooting, T.money told them that the man they shot and killed at Apapa was a bank manager.
Lateef told detectives: “We regretted killing the bank manager. It happened three years go.”
Lateef said he had worked with five other gangs before teaming up with T.money’s gang.
He told the police: “But since I joined T.money’s gang, I had never been caught by police until now. I was caught this time because Kayode and I decided to go and carry out operation alone. The other gang members didn’t know.”
Recounting how the gang was defeated, a police source said: “We set out for Agboyi at around 2am. We got a standby boat. The owner took us across, to the Island. We went with Lateef. He showed us the house. We surrounded it. We ordered them to come out with their hands up. But we didn’t know there was another door. Some of them tried to escape through the hidden door. Our men were on ground. Our men ordered those fleeing to stop, but they refused. They were heading towards the river. We opened fire. Some of them inside house were also shooting at our men from inside. It was a bloody shoot out. Some of them were wounded. We took them to hospital. We recovered two locally made guns, four pump action rifles, 18 cartridges, 27 wraps of Indian hemp, five packets of syringes and some liquid suspected to be hard drug.”
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