Anti-Robbery detectives attached to the Area B
Police Command, Apapa, Lagos State, have arrested a serving soldier and a
motorbike rider who specialize in robbing tanker drivers.
The suspect, Lance Corporal Jeremiah, attached to
Signal barracks, Apapa, by Liverpool, was alleged to always attack tanker
drivers with jack knife before dispossessing them of their valuables.
Jeremiah used to carry the operation with the help of
a commercial motorbike rider, whom he provided with army uniform to make the
tanker drivers lower their guards and make the robbery easier.
While the police are accusing Jeremiah and his
partner, name unknown, of robbery, the soldier was said to have screamed at
them that he was not a robber.
A police source said: “He said he didn’t rob the
tanker drivers because he didn’t use gun, but only used to scare them with his
jack knife.”
The commercial bike rider told the police that he
and Jeremiah had been robbing since last year, adding that it was the soldier
who convinced him to join him in the robberies.
According to the police, Jeremiah knew that most of
the tanker drivers in the evening used to park between Tin Can First Gate and
Second Gate.
Armed with this knowledge, he would organize the
motorbike rider, in army uniform; they would get jack knives and start robbing
tanker drivers.
A policeman said: “The suspects collected N12, 000
from one of the tanker drivers on the fateful day they were arrested. What they
usually do, is that, wearing army uniform, both of them would flag down a
tanker driver and rob him. On this particular day, the driver was trying to
maneuver a bend, when Jeremiah and his partner jumped out, they ordered him to
stop, but he refused. They chased him in their motorbike to Liverpool area.
When the driver finally halted, Jeremiah punctured his tyres with his jack
knife. They collected N12, 000 and phones from him.”
The source said that the scared tanker driver ran
away. While running, he ran into policemen from Area B Command. The team was on
a routine patrol. He frantically waved them down and narrated how two men in
army uniforms robbed him.
The team quickly followed his direction and found
the two uniformed men. They immediately arrested them.
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