The Inspector-General of Police Intelligence
Response Team (IRT) has arrested most wanted armed robber, 31-year-old Fashola,
aka Awolowo, who has been on the wanted list of the police for a while.
Awolowo
has been wanted for offences of house-to-house robbery and road attacks in
Lagos and neighbouring states. He was declared wanted after he was released
from prison and formed a formidable, vicious gang. He was arrested alongside
three other gang members.
Speaking
with journalists at the command headquarters, Ikeja, Awolowo said he had given
up crime and was about disposing of his weapons of destruction when he was
arrested.
According
to him, he had met his mother and wife and confessed his criminal activities
and his mother placed a curse on him that if he went for any more criminal
activities, he would be arrested.
He said:
“I was a notorious criminal, I won’t deny it, but I have repented. I have even
robbed in front of Alakara Police Station, where my boy shot someone; I won’t
deny it. I am a strongman. I have been to prison three times. I was released
from prison through the help of my aunty. After my last release from prison, my
wife reported me to my mother. My mother, who was furious, stripped herself
naked and placed a curse on me that if I went for robbery I would be arrested,
and I said ‘Amen.’ To do away with the crime, I contacted a friend, who
promised to buy my gun. I was taking the gun to him when the police arrested
me. I swear by with my late father that I have stopped robbery. I used to rob
people but I have stopped.”
Lagos
State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, who paraded the suspect and 20
others, based on credible intelligence gathered on the activities of a gang of
robbers that specialised in robbing motorists and passengers of their
belongings and who were also involved in house-to-house robbery, men of the IRT
based in Lagos State Command rounded up three persons, Fashola, aka Awolowo,
31, Oni, 28, and 26-year-old Oyeniyi.
He said
the suspects confessed that they were ex-convicts and a search conducted at
their hideout at Sango, Ogun State, yielded two guns.
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