The 26-year-old suspect, Jamiu Bello, was arrested by officials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State at the weekend.
Bello was arrested after he stole a motorcycle marked KTU 388 QG, belonging to Israel Ikyav, a commercial rider, at Ijora Olopa area of the metropolis. He said: “I have stolen no fewer than 20 motorcycles across South-West. If I go to other states, apart from Lagos to operate, I would ride the motorcycle down to Lagos to sell here. I have two receivers of these stolen motorcycles. One of them lives at Alamutu in Mushin, while the other is in Ijora. “I can sell a motorcycle for N40,000, depending on how clean it looks.
All these scars on my body were inflicted on me by mob actions anytime I was caught stealing motorcycles. I’m just an unrepentant thief because I was supposed to have changed my way of life.” The victim, Ikyav, said he went into a cafeteria to eat and parked his motorcycle beside the shop. He was just about to eat his food when a colleague dashed into the shop to tell him that someone had stolen his motorcycle. Ikyav abandoned his plate of food and ran out.
Together with other people, they chased Bello, but couldn’t catch him. He said: “We knew that we couldn’t catch up with him because he was too far ahead of us with the motorcycle already. I quickly alerted the RRS riders, who were patrolling the area.
The RRS riders used their motorcycle to block him. At that point, the thief abandoned the motorcycle and tried to escape with another motorcyclist before he was arrested.” Bello, a father of three, said that he started stealing motorcycles two years ago.
He said: “There were two of us and we operated in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo states. My accomplice, whose name is Ibijuwon, is currently in Kirikiri Prison.” The suspect said that his partner in crime was arrested on Lagos Island when they went for operation.https://newtelegraphonline.com/im-unrepentant-thief-says-suspect/
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