Written by: Oluwatoyin Malik
AN
ex-inmate of Ilorin prison, Teslim Mohammed, who was recently arrested
by the operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Oyo/Ogbomoso
annex, while planning a robbery attack with his gang members, has blamed
the devil for his return to crime.
This was just as he vowed
that he would never return to crime if let off the hook this time,
saying that police should not hesitate to kill him if he was caught
again.
The suspect was among other gang members paraded by the Oyo State Police Command at its headquarters in Ibadan on April, 28.
Speaking
on the arrest, the Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, disclosed that
two of the gang members broke into the residence of one Adelakun
Adekola, a member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, and stole his
official single barrel gun issued to him by the local government for
security purpose, with the aim of using it to commit crime.
He
stated further that the hoodlums cut the gun to a size that would enable
them conceal it during robbery operations but two of them, Ajibesin
Solomon (22) and Adeniyi Tunde (32), were arrested while planning a
robbery operation to be carried out in some parts of Ogbomoso, Oyo and
Ilorin, Kwara State.
As a follow-up, the SARS operatives also
arrested six other suspected gang members on April 26 at about 3a.m..
They include Aliu Wale Azeez a.k.a AZ (28), Teslim Mohammed (26),
Olanrewaju Ajayi (23), Kehinde Abiodun (28), Adeleke Adeyemi (26), and
Adamu Mohammed (23).
The gang was said to be notorious and were operating in Oyo and Ogbomoso axis of Oyo State and Ilorin, Kwara State.
Recovered from the suspects were three cut-to-size barrel guns, three
locally-made pistols, 14 live cartridges, four jack knives, six
cutlasses, one saw blade, assorted criminal charms, among other items.
Crime Reports interviewed some of the arrested suspects. Below are the excerpts of the interview:
Teslim Mohammed
I
am from Erin-Ile in Kwara State but live at Sango, Ilorin. I was a
drycleaner. It was Tunde who brought a gun to me that he wanted to sell
it. I knew Tunde in Ilorin; he was a carpenter. Tunde knew me as a hard
guy and we used to meet at hemp joint.
I called my friend, AZ, to cut
it to size, after which we kept it beside a primary school in Ilorin.
After that, we attempted to use it to rob at Gaa Akanbi area of Ilorin
but we were unsuccessful. Tunde was later challenged and arrested, while
we fled. One of us, Solomon, who returned to his residence at Gambari
in Ogbomoso, was also challenged by his community members and he was
arrested. Tunde brought police to arrest me.
I was once remanded
in prison after we robbed some students in Ilorin. I spent close to a
year in prison before I was granted bail. The case is still in court. I
got AZ’s number from a prison’s inmate called Tosin. It was AZ who gave
me the number of another gang member, Bayo.
I don’t understand
myself; it was the devil’s work that made me do the job. If I am let off
the hook, I will never venture into crime again. If I try to commit
crime again, the police should kill me after catching me.
Aliu Wale Azeez (AZ)
Tosin
and I were not really in the same gang; only that we come from the same
place. I have also been to the prison. Tosin only wanted me to connect
Teslim with one Anthony Femi; that was why he gave my number to Teslim
when he was leaving prison. Femi brought a gun and joined it with the
one Teslim had. I was asked to keep the guns and I did. That was the
only involvement I had and it was the mistake I made.
Tunde Adeniyi (32)
I
am into carpentry and furniture making. Solomon Ajibesin and I stole
the gun of a man who lives in our community and works as a security
guard. We wanted to use the gun to snatch a car in Ilorin. It was the
owner of the gun who came to ask me of his gun. I believe he used juju
to detect that I was the one who stole the gun from his house.
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