Men of Lagos
Police Command has
arrested a 23yrs old
deadly robber, Prince
Nwafor, with a visual
recording of a robbery
operation that he took part
in. According to police
authorities, the suspect is
part of a robbery gang
that specialises in
snatching vehicles in all
parts of Lagos and selling
them at low prices.
Asked why he
recorded their
robbery operation on
his phone, Prince
Nwafor said: “In the
first robbery
operation I did with
them, we stole two
cars and sold them
at N800,000 . We
were three, which
means I should have
received at least
N250, 000.
Unfortunately, I was
given only
N100,000."
The recording, which was
captured with a camera
phone, showed how
Prince Nwafor and other
members of the gang
robbed a motorist of his
car in an undisclosed
location.
Nwafor told Punch that he
made the recordings so
he could blackmail his
colleagues with it because
they usually cheated him
when sharing their loot
and the recording was
meant to be used as a
leverage to force them to
share the robbery loot
equally.
He said, “I was a
commercial motorcycle
rider but when the Lagos
State Government began
to restrict our operation, I
abandoned the job and
started working as a
labourer at construction
sites in Lagos. However,
the money was too little.
“When I travelled to my
village in Ebonyi State, I
met Kingsley Chibuzor,
who told me that he came
to the state to snatch
some cars and asked me
to join him. Since I
needed money, I joined
his gang. However, they
were always cheating me
when they were sharing
the money.
“During the second
operation in Abakaliki,
they cheated me again.
So the third time, I used
my camera phone to
record the entire
operation. I kept it to be
used as leverage so that if
they cheated me again, I
can use it to blackmail
them.”
Prince Nwafor said things,
however, did not work as
he planned because after
another operation, he was
not contacted by the gang
members. He said after a
lot of efforts, he located
them and discovered that
another member of the
gang, Enebeli Ozoemena,
held his (Nwafor)
N200,000 share.
He said, “We had a big
quarrel and everybody
went their separate ways
until we were arrested by
operatives of the Special
Anti Robbery Squad.”
When asked what he did
with the money he made
from his robberies, the
suspect said, “I went to
Ebonyi State, where I had
my wedding. Weddings
are expensive. Soon after,
my wife gave birth to a
son and we were happy,
but when I left the gang, I
became so broke that I
had to sell some of my
things in order to feed .
“My parents, my wife and
child had been killed
during a communal clash
between Amedo village in
Ebonyi and Adama Village
in Cross River.”
Police Public Relations
Officer, Ngozi Braide, said
some of the stolen
vehicles had been
recovered.
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