The Commissioner of Police in
Lagos, Edgal Imohimi, has narrated how a suspected armed robber, Michael David,
was arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State,
after he robbed a lady, identified simply as Kate, of her phone.
According to the Police boss,
22-year-old David and two other members of his gang, while armed with a
locally-made double-barreled pistol, attacked Kate and her boyfriend, one
Desmond, on Close 26, Satellite Town, Ijegun, around 10pm.
They were said to have taken
Kate’s mobile phone and threatened to shoot the couple dead if they resisted.
The gang reportedly mounted a
waiting motorcycle and was about speeding off when Desmond summoned courage and
attacked the men.
He succeeded in pulling down
David, as his girlfriend called for help.
Attempts by the suspect to shoot
the victim failed, as the gun reportedly jammed. David was reportedly mobbed by
residents, who handed him over to the police.
Imohimi said: “On August 13,
2017, at about 10pm, one Demond and Kate, both residents of Satellite Town,
Ijegun, Lagos, were on their way home when they were attacked at Close 26,
Satellite Town, by three armed robbers with one locally-made double-barrelled
pistol.
“The suspects ordered them to
surrender their phones or get shot. They dispossessed them of a mobile phone,
valued at N39,000, and jumped on their standby motorcycle.
“But the man summoned courage and
dragged one of them, Michael David, down from the motorcycle and with the help
of passersby, the suspect was arrested and his gun taken away from him. The two
other robbers escaped with the stolen property,” he narrated while parading
David among seven other suspected robbers at the Police Officers’Mess, Ikeja,
yesterday
The suspect, who claimed to be a
tiler and an indigene of Imo state, said he was not the owner of the gun,
adding that it belonged to his friend, one Ahmed.
David said his gang had only
approached the girl to collect her phone, adding that he was not an armed
robber.
He said: “We were coming from a
friend’s party around the Waterside area on that day when we sighted the girl
passing with her boyfriend. We went to meet her to collect her phone and she
suddenly raised the alarm. My friends ran away, but I was caught.
“I was not caught with the gun.
Two to three hours after the incident, some OPC members brought the gun and
said it belonged to me. I am not an armed robber and we didn’t attack the girl;
we only collected her phone.”
When, however, the Investigating
Police Officer challenged him on his denial of the gun, he owned up.
The policeman explained that the
suspect had attempted to shoot Desmond and his girlfriend dead when the gun jammed.
“He made an attempt to shoot at
them, but the gun disappointed him. He was the one holding the gun,” he said.
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