Juliana
Francis
After
spending three years in prison for pickpocketing and stealing in 2017, 27-year-old
Mr Tunde Ajeigbe appears to be on his way back to prison.
Ajeigbe,
described by police as unrepentant suspect, was rearrested at the 7UP area of
Ikeja, Lagos State for snatching an android phone from a passenger traveling in
a commercial bus.
The suspect
was rearrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Ikeja, Lagos
State Police Command.
The police
said: “Ajeigbe with two other accomplices, Ekene and Bolenbe, rode a motorcycle
to 7Up area of Ikeja to rob unsuspecting members of the public. Ajeigbe jumped
down from the motorcycle and snatched an android phone from a passenger
traveling in a commercial bus. He thereafter joined his cohorts on the motorcycle
and sped off, but luck was against them as eyes witnesses who were at the scene
of the crime scene gave them a hot chase from that spot until they got to
Otedola Bridge and alerted RRS men, who were on pin down underneath the bridge.
The RRS operatives gave the fleeing thieves a hot chase forcing them to abandon
their motorcycle and made for the bush before Ajeigbe was arrested. The two
others escaped.”
During
interrogation, Ajeigbe confessed to have been arrested in 2017 and was charged
to court over similar crime.
He said: “I
was arrested around Ojota after I snatched a lady’s phone and got caught by the
police. I was remanded in the prison since then and was released on 19th of
November 2019 but couldn’t go back to my wife and child. I went back to the
house I rented before going to prison but couldn’t find my properties and my
family again so I made for the street again. I went back to Oshodi under bridge
to go join my friends, who gave me clothes to wear and bought me food before we
went back into our usual job. After spending some days in Mushin, some of my
area brothers who knew I just returned from prison assisted me to secure a
motorcycle on hire purchase but that wasn’t enough for me as I wanted to make
quick money to go and see my mother in the village after leaving home for three
years.”
He further
disclosed: “My aged mother would be worried after I left home without returning
and no one knew my whereabouts as my wife never informed my family that I have
been arrested and remanded in the prison. I therefore sought to steal again to
raise some money but unfortunately I was caught.”
It was
gathered that Ekene and Bolenbe are at still at large, but their gang’s
operational motorcycle, marked FST-279 QJ was recovered.
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