Four armed robbers who specialize in robbing with police
uniforms have been arrested and paraded by the Lagos state Police
command. The four men named Julius George, Samuel Orgah, Lucky Oliseh
and Lucky Friday
were arrested by the police force at the Ile Zik area on the
Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on the 22nd of June Punch reports.
From their confessions, it was gathered
that other operations carried out by the gang included robbing a trailer load of
rice at Oju-Elegba area worth N4.5m and a tanker carrying engine
oil worth N11m. They were arrested during the
Ile Zik area operation, which was said to be their fourth operation, and
involving about N8m. Continue...
Ring leader of the gang, 34 year old
Julius George from Benue state who is married with children in his
confessional statement said he led the other men into the act by
deceiving them that he was a police man. He said he bought the police
uniform materials in the market, made them into the uniforms and gave
them to his gang members.
"This was not the first time we would use police uniforms for robbery. In 2013, I was arrested by the police and charged to court. I was remanded for some time, but my family came and I was released on bail. Later, the court discharged me for want of evidence. While in remand at the Kirikiri Prisons, I met Sam (Orgah). When I came out of prisons, a friend of mine called Benjamin invited me again for another job. I was asked to escort a truck of engine oil from Apapa to Mushin, because they still regarded me as a policeman. They paid me N5,000 when they offloaded.” he said33 year old Samuel Orgah who is also from Benue state said he was an imprisoned armed robber who took to his bad ways after he regained his freedom in 2011. For Oliseh Lucky from Delta state, he said he came in contact with the gang leader, George, only three weeks before their arrest when George invited him for the N8m robbery in Ile Zik area.
“I have never gone on an operation with Mopol before. He only invited me to come with him to collect money. I did not know it was robbery,” he said.
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