The Delta State Police Command said it has arrested two middle-aged folks, who specialised in parking tinted glass vehicles around bank premises and then would later dispossess bank customers of their money.
The Delta State Police spokesman, a Superintendent of Police, Edafe Bright, who in interviewed the suspects in a video, urged Nigerians, especially Delta State citizens to be, “wary of those who stay opposite the banks, mostly in tinted vehicles and wait for customers who withdraw huge amounts of money, and then trail them and wait for one moment of carelessness from them.”
According to Bright, these suspects also make use of master Keys to open doors and steal their victim’s money.
Bright further said: “Hear the Confessions of these two suspects we arrested. I addressed them as PAPA. They are 50 years old and 51 years old. We got Intel that this gang goes to a bank, waits outside the bank and then targets customers who must have gone inside the bank to withdraw large sums of money.
“We got Intel and started gathering our intelligence until we eventually arrested them in Asaba here. As we interview them, they are going to tell us their modus operandi. “
Bright: Papa, what is your name?
Suspect: My name is Osadadowa Goodluck
Bright: Okay, how old are you
Suspect: I am 51 years old
Bright: You know why you were arrested so that one no be news again, so just tell me how did they arrest you, where did they arrest una?
Suspect: I park in front of Provindous bank along inpopla road. I was inside my car with my friend here, so as we were waiting for bank customers to come out of the bank, that was when the police came and surround us both.
Bright: Okay, so the customers wey una dey wait for to come outside the bank wetin be una plan, what kind of operation do you do?
Suspect: We use master key, maybe to follow the customer, maybe if the customer park, maybe go to buy something, we will now use master key to open the car and take the money inside
Bright: Okay, so wetin dey determine the bank wey una go dey wait for these customers?
Suspect: Is the banks that is along the road
Bright: Ok so any bank wey dey along the road?
Suspect: Yes sir
Bright: So where una dey park for the bank?
Suspect: We don’t park inside the bank, sometimes we park along or maybe opposite the bank
Bright: This your syndicate you people are how many in number?
Suspect: We are three
Bright: Ok you said the third person escaped. I noticed that this vehicle is tinted, why is it tinted?
Suspect: It’s tinted because we were inside the car maybe watching for customers and maybe the security of the bank may not notice that somebody is inside of the car
Bright: Ok so you dey do am so that police or security will not quickly understand your motive
Suspect: Yessir
Bright: Ok before we interview the second suspect this is their file that they use to file their master key, because they always go with a master key that has the shape of a T that they use to trail their target, victim maybe when they park their vehicle leaving money that they would withdraw from the bank, they use the master key to open it, carry the money that they put inside the vehicle and runaway. We want to interview the other suspect now, Papa what is your name?
Second suspect: My name is Nnamdi Harriwando
Bright: You don’t have to look at me unless you want make people see your face oh eh. Ok, so how old are you?
Second suspect: I’m 50 years sir
Bright: 50 years? That means na age group na, since the other one is 51 years. This is a business for old people abi? Ok, that aside, how una take dey do this operation?
Second suspect: We drive to the bank side and park along the bank or across the bank, we will be watching for customers that are coming out from the bank
Bright: Ok lemme just ask this question, how much is the highest amount wey una don succed collect from people?
Second suspect: It’s two hundred and fifty thousand (N250,000)
Bright: Two hundred and fifty thousand. Ok, so do you usually break into their vehicles or open their vehicles?
Second suspect: We open the vehicle
Bright: So your master key can open all the vehicles?
Second suspect: Not all the vehicles
Bright: So the ones that your master key cannot open what do you do?
Second suspect: We move out
Bright: Oh you move out make dey no catch una
Second suspect: Yes
Bright: Ok, how long have you been in this business? And this particular operation, how long una don dey do am
Second suspect: We’ve been doing it for two years
Bright: For two years now? Ok how many una be for the gang
Second suspect: We are three
Bright: Three in number, where’s the third person?
Second suspect: We were waiting for the third person that day before the police arrested us
Bright: Ok you guys were still waiting for the third person before the police came. Ok does your children know what you do for a living
Second suspect: No sir
Bright: What did you tell them that you are doing for a living?
Second suspect: I told them I’m a business man
Bright: You are a business man, ok how many children do you have?
Second suspect: I have 4 kids
Bright: By the time they watch this video on the Internet will they recognize that you’re the one talking?
Second suspect: I don’t know sir
Bright: But you have mentioned your name so they will know.
Second suspect: Yes they will know sir. They will feel bad and me I’m ashamed of myself
Bright: You’re ashamed, but you were not ashamed for the past two years when you were doing it
Second suspect: Ok it is well una don come una don come out own is to do our own small investigation charge you to court and the court will do the rest.
