Olawoye said he had not
eaten for four days and only wanted to snatch Mrs. Omotoyosi Adewoye’s handbag,
with the hope of finding money to buy food.
“Starvation drove me
into crime,” the suspect told journalists.
Olawoye, a Higher
Diploma holder of Building Technology from the Kwara State Polytechnic, begged
Adewoye, a magistrate in the state judiciary, to forgive him.
The suspect, who
claimed to be a member of Living Faith Church, Offa Garage branch, recalled how
he flagged down the magistrate’s car around Gaa-Akanbi area of Ilorin
metropolis.
He said: “I decided to
rob her out of desperation. I had not eaten for four days. My intention was to
snatch the bag and find money; but when I pulled out the knife, the woman
rushed out of the car. She started screaming. I drove off with the car and soon
noticed the baby at the backseat. This discovery put me in greater confusion. I
didn’t know what to do. There were policemen on the road at almost about every
three kilometres. I decided to drop the baby behind someone’s house at
Akerebiata.
“I then drove the car
to Asa Dam Road, and when I had emptied the purse which was my original intention,
I wanted to go and drop the car somewhere, a place where police could find it
the following day. But as I looked out through the window of my house, I
discovered that operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had
surrounded the house. I was arrested.”
According to Olawoye,
this was his first attempt at crime.
He added: “I know
the law will take its course, but the only thing I want now is for the magistrate
to forgive me.”
The state Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO), Ajayi Okasanmi, said Olawoye would soon be arraigned
for armed robbery.
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