Every
day for the thief, one day for the house owner
Stories we read these days on the
pages of our newspapers affects ones ears. Guess these hoodlums are seriously
devising means of perfecting their acts?
Anyways, according to reports, a
27-year-old commercial sex worker, Victoria Amodu, has revealed the vital role
she plays for her gang during operations. She made this revelation after been
arrested by the police as a suspected robber.
Punch Reports…
PUNCH Metro learnt that Amodu,
who hails from Benin, Edo State, was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command
at a brothel in Seme, near Badagry.
The police said apart from
commercial sex work, Amodu allegedly belonged to a gang of robbers who were
notorious for picking unsuspecting passengers in flashy cars and robbing them
at gunpoint.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Amodu was
arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad after a member of the gang, Ahmed
Isiaka, who had earlier been apprehended, named her as an accomplice.
Amodu explained that her role
during robbery operations was to sit beside the driver so that their victims
would feel secured after seeing a woman in the vehicle.
She said, “During any robbery
operation, I would dress casually and sit in the front beside the driver.
Isiaka was the driver. Our vehicle usually plied Seme to Lagos areas. The
passengers, picked on sighting me in the vehicle, would come in without
suspicion.
“Then after going for a while,
the driver would receive a signal from other vehicles at our back where other
gang members were, and we would stop at a lonely area and rob our victims.
“After the robbery, the vehicles
would zoom off to another area to pick a fresh round of passengers. That was
how we operated. From each of the operations, they gave me between N10,000 and
N15,000.
“One of the gang members named
Okanlawon had come to the brothel where I operated and took me out for the
night. He was the one that introduced me to other members of the gang and later
to their work. I was not the only lady the gang used.”
Amodu, who said she was a
divorcee, added that she took to commercial sex work as a result of poverty.
Also, Isiaka told PUNCH Metro
that other areas in Lagos where the gang robbed passengers were Iyana Oba,
Agbara and Oko Afo. He added that he had first been arrested by the Ojo Police
Division before he was brought to SARS.
He said, “I was the driver who
worked with Victoria (Amodu). We don’t come out until around 8.30pm. With
Victoria in the front seat, it was easy to pick many passengers without
arousing their suspicion.
“We were arrested because one of
the victims we robbed, a woman, wrote down the vehicle’s registration number
and reported her experience to the police.
“Few days later, the police found
the vehicle, stopped and arrested me.”
Culled: PUNCH

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