A 39-year 2007 law graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife,Osun State, Williams Abiodun yesterday narrated how his gang of four members disguise as site workers to lure drivers to a site, where they dispossessed them of their vehicles, kill and sell their vehicles to Chinese companies in Benin City, Edo State.
Abiodun, who said he hails from Owo, in Owo local government area of Ondo State made the revelation while being paraded alongside ten other suspected criminals by the Edo State Police commissioner, Muhammed Dankwara at headquarters of the State Police command, Benin.
He said, “what we do is that we disguise as site workers going to site, then we call drivers to take us to the site, when we get to the site, we will collect their cars kill them with blocks, and sell their cars. We killed first one collected his car and I sold it to the Chinese company, the second one was a Keke Napep, we also sold it, but the last one was the one that the police arrested us. We are yet to sell the Sienna car, before we were arrested.”
Collaborating the report, Akin Amadin said, he met Williams Abiodun in Auchi and he told him about the business.
“Abiodun told me that my job is to be watching to see who is coming, the first one we did, he gave me N35,000 ,the second one was N55,000 and the last one was the Sienna car, but we could not sell it before the police caught us. We killed the three persons,” he said.
The gang is made up of Williams Abiodun 39; Emmanuel Joseph 30; ,Akin Amadin ,29 and the fourth person who is now at large.
Edo State commissioner of police, Mohammed Dankwara, while briefing the press during the parade said the Police recovered N1.2m, sophisticated arms and ammunition, while 135 suspects were arrested since his assumption of office in Edo State.
He, however, warned criminal elements in the state to call it quits or move out of the state or else have themselves to blame.
Dankwara stated that investigation shows that with the arrest of some of them, the crime rate in the state has gone down which implies that those in custody have always been key partakers in crime.
Among recovered items were AK-47 rifles, locally-made guns, pistols, ten vehicles, 130 gas cylinders, two motorcycles and N1,200,000.
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