Robber Abandons Own Car During OperationRobber Abandons Own Car During Operation
• Goes to police station to lay complaint that his car was stolen by armed robbers
Stories by XAVIER NDAH
The table was turned around a 28 year old man, Kolawole Ajayi in Lagos who was not contented with the booming buying and selling of stolen telephone sets.
The buying and selling had fetched him so much money that he was able to purchase a very neat BMW 3 series car. The car, he said, had placed him in a very high position in the society. He loves the car so much that even in police cell he wished the car would not be ceased from him by the police.
He claims that his friends lured him into using the same car for a robbery operation from where he abandoned it at the scene of their operation. He later went to the police station to lay a report that his car was stolen. Hear him. “My name is Kolawale Ajayi, I am 28 years old from Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State. I could not take my SSCE examination because my father died, so I decided to join a friend of mine, Shola Odukoya, who introduced me into buying and selling of second hand handsets. I met one Olusoji Ogunjiri at the Computer Village in Lagos who sold me two handsets at the rate of N6,000 to each. Since then, we became friends and before then I have been buying phones from several people. It could be either stolen or the owners don't want them again.
“On August 5, Ogunjiri came to me, this time around he did not bring telephones. He called me aside and said there was a deal which we could strike and get more money. I asked him which kind of deal, he said I should not worry but that I would not regret it. We drove to somewhere around Fela Shrine where we drank some bottles of beer. He demanded that I should give him my BMW 3 series car which they will use to perfect the business and I agreed. The following day, he called me that I should meet him somewhere at Anifowoshe area at Ikeja and I went. I suspected him to be a notorious armed robber because of the type of phones he used to sell to me, but I never knew he wanted to involve me in their robbery gang.
“So about 10pm, he called me to join him somewhere at Oba Akran Avenue. I drove them to a particular house. All this while, I never knew what we were going to do. We entered one house, they knocked as soon as it was opened they held everyone in the house hostage and at gun point. We were four in number. The woman in the house showed them where she normally keeps money.
“We went away with N2.5million, and a box containing assorted and expensive jewelleries and some handsets.
“As we were leaving the house, we heard the blaring of siren. We thought the police were coming to the scene of the operation. We scattered in different directions, but we successfully escaped with the stolen items including the money. That was how we abandoned my car there.
“I think the residents of the compound, called the police who came to recover the vehicle to the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS).
“On the third day, I went to report at SARS where my vehicle was parked. I told them that my vehicle was stolen by armed robbers and that I want to recover same.
“By this time, I never knew that my friend, Ogunjiri, had already been arrested and he had told the police about me and he was inside the cell. All that the police did was to push me inside the cell. It was there that I met Ogunjiri. All that I want now is to drive my car again and live a normal life. We are ready to return everything to the owner”, Ajayi explained.
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