Unrepentant robber arrested 2 months after leaving prison for same crime, says it’s God’s doing

An unrepentant armed robber identified as Hussein Mohammed said when fielding questions from journalists that it was God’s doing that he became an armed robber after he was arrested barely two months after he left prison for the same crime.

According to the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr Sam Adegbuyi, Mohammed, 35, was arrested alongside other gang members who are also ex-convicts namely: Salawu Nurudeen, 25, Ogunbiyi Kola a.k.a. Timmy, (23), Oriowo Ayo (28) and Ahmadu Garuba (30) following a robbery operation at the Arafat Area of Saki town in Oyo State where they robbed a family of their valuables, including cash, a Toyota Corolla car, phones and laptops at gunpoint.

Recounting the incident, Alhaji Badmus, a victim of the robbery incident said; “The armed robbers entered my compound in Saki on November 21, 2016 at about 7.45p.m., and held my family members hostage. As I was returning home at about 9.50p.m., I called my wife and daughter, unknown to me that they had been held hostage, though they allowed them to use their phones so that I would not suspect anything.

“As I drove in, two of the armed robbers (pointed at them among the suspects) jumped out, put a gun at my chest and asked me to cooperate with them. As I looked at them, wondering what was happening, one of them said ‘continue looking at our faces; we have been told that you are very stubborn,’ warning me of the consequences of the action I might be thinking of taking as my wife and other children were taken hostage inside the house.

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“I surrendered to them and as we entered into my residence, one of them gave me a slap on the neck. They demanded for gold, money, receipt to my plasma TV and wristwatches I bought from Makkah, Saudi Arabia, when I went on holy pilgrimage.

“They asked me to lie down and started ransacking my house. When they were through, they locked me up in a room with my family members and left. They went with six phones, my daughter’s laptop, clothings, my wife’s gold jewelry and my car.” Alhaji Badmus said.

Reports say immediately, the robbers fled the scene of the crime, a distress call was put through to the police, with a unit of SARS at Ogbomoso/Oyo axis said to have swung into action which led to the apprehension of the robbers.

In his confessional statement, Nurudeen said it didn’t take him much time to go back to his old ways two months after he was released from prison.

“It is true we went to rob. I did not enter the victim’s house with other gang members; I stayed outside. His car was handed over to me after the operation. I met Timmy and Mohammed a.k.a Goodluck in Ilesa prison.

“When we got talking, I told them I needed a vehicle and they promised to work with me after leaving the prison to achieve my desire. I was a driver before I went to prison for fighting. I was arrested with the car we collected from our victim on the same day at Sabe on Saki-Iseyin Road.”

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Adegbuyi, however revealed that Nurudeen, Mohammed and Timmy were charged to Saki Magistrates’ court on February 8 and were being remanded in Oyo Prisons.

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