…Gang Busted After Receiving Cache Of Arms, Ammunition For Operation
The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), a Superintendent of Police, Edafe Bright, said that the Command has arrested a gang of suspected robbers, which specialised in raiding homes.
Bright said that the suspected gang members while preparing for another operation, were swooped on by police operatives from the Delta.
The Police arrested over 12 suspects and recovered an English pistol, one long double barrel gun, a locally made cut-to-size gun and over seven cutlasses.
“They said they usually scale through the fence and most of the time, their victims don’t usually lock their doors,” said Bright.
Bright, who stated this in a video, said: “We are at the special anti-kidnapping and cybercrime squad in Delta State Command and like I always tell you, Delta State will never be a home for criminals, it will never be a haven for criminals because we will always smoke them out of their hiding places.
“Today we have two syndicates of armed robbers who go from house to house robbing people of phones, money, laptops and electronics. They have made us understand that they get access by scaling fences. They also told us one thing that is peculiar about their operations and that is their targets. I’m not the one that will say their target, they will say it by themselves.”
He said that exhibits recovered from the gang are double barrel guns, pistols, locally cut-to-sized guns and machetes.
Bright said: “We’ll be interviewing them now, for an amount of time I don’t want to bore you with too much talking because I know our audience and listeners want to hear directly from them.
Bright: What is your name
Suspect: My name is Danlami
Bright: Danlami, where are you from?
Suspect: I’m from Taraba state
Bright: Do you know why you were arrested?
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: Ok wetin make them arrest you na?
Suspect: I go thief, sir
Bright: You go, thief, wetin you na go take dey thief?
Suspect: We take a gun and cutlass
Bright: Ok, some of the guns, dey here abi?
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: Okay, to be sure, look at this gun now, is one of the guns una dey carry go operate?
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: What about this one
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: Ok, eh I dey see some machetes here, also wetin you no dey use the machete dey do, all these cutlasses?
Suspect: Eh we dey use am, if some of them no get gun, so we dey use the machetes
Bright: Ok so some of your members wey dem no get gun you dey give am machete, so wetin una dey use the machete do when you na reach the house wey una wan rob?
Suspect: No, we no dey use the machete beat person
Bright: Ehee, na just for decoration?
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: Where una don rob for Delta State so far?
Suspect: Iseloko and Iyoma market
Bright: For Asaba here?
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: Ok, so before they arrest una, you tell me something…
Suspect: We were prepared to go another operation on Monday
Bright: Ok, where that place dey?
Suspect: That place is our oga that knows the place so he never calls the name of the place for us. He just tells us say work dey we go go for night
Bright: Okay, before una prepare dey go there, police come gbabi una
Suspect: Dem just come carry us for morning time
Bright:Ok, ok you say you are from where again?
Suspect: Taraba state
Bright: And now that sey don arrest you, how you feel na?
Suspect: I feel bad sir E no good say make I do this work
Bright: You just dey know now say E no good or you don know before say E no good?
Suspect: No, even from beginning I no say the work no good
Bright: So, why you come dey do am now?
Suspect: Nothing sir
Bright: And you get fine beard beard, you no resemble thief. oh who just look you now, no say na arm robbery you dey do
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: Ok who be this man wey dey near you, wetin be his name
Suspect: Guafa
Bright: Ok he dey follow una go rob too?
Suspect: No! He no follow us one time
Bright: No worry, no be you go speak for am, make I give mic make he speak for himself. My brother, what is your name?
Suspect: My name is Gaunafa, from plateaus state
Bright: Ok wetin una dey do this your second say you na him crime partner, which kind operation you na dey do how you dey do the arm robbery fast?
Suspect: Erm I dey follow go with them and that Isolofo wey they go, I no follow dem, na only once wey i follow dem go for this Asaba here
Bright: Ok, the place wey you go for asaba here wetin una rob for that place?
Suspect: We carry four iPhones for hand and one laptop
Bright: Around what time una dey go do this operation
Suspect: Around 1:am and 2:am
Bright: How you take dey enter the compound
Suspect: We follow through fence sir
Bright: What about the door? Dem dey open the door for una or una dey break am?
Suspect: Some no dey lock door, some we dey break am
Bright: Una don hear o, some no dey lock door. Always lock your door, ok while those wey dey lock the door you na dey break am?
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: All these guns wey dey here now, you recognize this one?
Suspect: Dey just carry am on Friday come, we never use am
Bright: Ok this one na Friday dey carry am come
Suspect: Yes sir all of them wey dey there
Bright: Ok what about all these cutlasses?
Suspect: Na the Cutlass na what we dey use
Bright: Ok so you know about the cutlass?
Suspect: Yes, I know about the Cutlass.
Bright: Ok, ok now wey dem don arrest, how do you feel?
Suspect: I feel very bad sir
Bright: Why is that all of una dey always feel bad after they arrest una?
Suspect: Because na friend push me into this
Bright: Wetin be that your friend name?
Suspect: Shadow
Bright: Where him dey now?
Suspect: He run away, he go agbo
Bright: Ok he run go agbo
Suspect: Yes sir
