An ex-prisoner, Chigioke Samson 23, may soon be on
his way back to prison.
The suspect was said to have been arrested around
Governor’s Road, Ikotun. He was arrested a few weeks after leaving prison,
where he was remanded on robbery allegations.
This time around, he was alleged to have gone on robbery
operation with other set of men, who fled at the sight of policemen. He was
arrested at the crime scene.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai
Owoseni, said: "Some of these suspects have been arrested before. They had
been arraigned in courts. They were given opportunity of bail in accordance
with the rule of law. Rather than leave crime, they continued, troubling law
abiding citizens. We have situation, whereby a suspect had been arrested twice
for robbery.”
He suspect, who confessed to being a bus conductor,
working at Ikotun, confessed to have met a friend, who tricked him to
Governor’s Road, where the robbery was carried out. He said he didn’t know that
his friend was going for a robbery operation with other men. He further
explained that he met his friend at a drinking joint, located at Ikotun
round-about.
He said: “We
went to drink on Sunday. On Monday, he begged me to escort him to Governor’s
road. He was with some other guys. I
didn’t know the location was for robbery operation. When we got to the house, I
did not enter with him and his friends. I stayed outside; that was where the police
arrested me.”
He said: “I’m not a robber. When I saw policemen
coming, I didn’t run because I knew I wasn’t a robber.”
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