Mr Emmanuel Michael (20) is likely
going back to prison, just 11 days after leaving the place.
Emmanuel was arrested four years ago
for man laughter and sentenced. He was released from Oke – Kura Prison, Kwara
State on Friday, April 26, 2019 and re-arrested on Monday in Lekki, Lagos,
along with his colleagues after robbing a 25-year-old lady in Lekki Phase 1.
Emmanuel and his colleagues,
Mohammed Abubakar (25), Simeon Michael (27), were arrested by operatives of
Rapid Response Squad (RRS).
Emmanuel said: “I was released from
Oke – Kura Prison, Kwara State on Friday. I was imprisoned for almost four
years for man slaughter. With the assistance of my brother, I travelled
down to Lagos and landed in Alaba Rago, Ojo. It was in that ghetto I met
Mohammed Abubakar, who said I should accompany him to Lekki", he
explained. He paid all the transport fare from Ojo to Lekki. He didn’t tell me
he was coming to rob. He only told me to play along with him.”
Abubakar, who is also an ex-convict,
while pleading for leniency, stated that he invited Michael and Simeon for a
"Student Parole".
Abubakar said: “We were on
"student parole". We saw the lady and our interest was to scare her
into parting away with her mobile phone. We told her we were Aiye Cult members
and that the colour of her dress gave her out as rival cult member. I told
Emmanuel to confirm if she was truly a member of rival cult member. I
thereafter threatened to kill her on that spot if she didn't co-operate with
me. I took her phone and asked her to go and get us drinks.
“She left to get the drinks and we
took to motorcycle and bolted. Unfortunately for us, we didn’t know that RRS operatives
were patrolling the area. She called for help and chased us motorcycle.
They caught up with us at Lekki Phase 1 Gate and this was where the police
arrested us. In all honesty, we are not cult members. We only use that code to
dispossess her of the phone she was holding. What we did is common among
teenagers raised in Alaba. It is called 'student parole', he added.
Abubakar who is a stylist was arrested
in Maryland, Lagos in September, 2018 for robbery. He was released in December,
2018 from Ikoyi Prison.
“It is the source of my livelihood.
I have operated in Lekki, Agege, Bariga, Shitta, Okoko, Maryland e.t.c",
he stated.
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