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How we trail bank customers –Robbery suspectsThe Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos has arrested two suspected criminals who specialized in trailing and robbing bank customers as they leave bank premises with money.
The duo of Daniel Ogwu and Henry Marsikoro, was sighted by an eagle-eyed policeman attached to a bank in the Badagry area of Lagos while they were waiting for their next victim in between two banks in the area.
According to the source, “while they were waiting, the security man on duty suspected their movements. They were subsequently arrested and taken to Badagry police division with their vehicle, a Toyota jeep. On getting to the station, the police conducted a search on the vehicle and later discovered a locally-fabricated master key inside the jeep.”
On receiving the report, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umaru Manko mandated the Officer in Charge of SARS, Supol Abba Kyari to wade into the matter and bring the culprits to book.
The case was thereafter transferred to SARS where the suspects confessed to the crime; saying they used the locally-fabricated master key to perfect their criminal activities. “Usually when a customer leaves a bank with a large sum of money, they will trail the person to wherever he may park. When the person parks and leaves the car, they will diligently move to the position of the car, unlock it with the master key and remove the money.
“They have been charged to court before for the same offence and they ended up at Kirikiri prison. When they came out from prison, they regrouped and started this criminal activity again. In their statements, they confessed that they have committed the crime at Apapa, Ajao Estate, Ikeja, Lagos Island and Badagry; where they were arrested. They have been to all these places where they carried
out the criminal activity,” the source said.
Speaking with Sunday Sun, one of the suspects, Daniel Ogwu, an indigene of Delta State, said he enrolled for marine and industrial engineering after his secondary education in 1998, a training he underwent for five years.
“After that, I started working on my own. We repaired big generators for companies and even the ones that ships use.”
Ogwu, who denied any criminal past, claimed that he went into crime in 2009 when his business suffered a major setback. “We started in 2009 because I later entered into business. I started travelling to Germany to bring buses to Nigeria. The business was going on well until I bought one container at auction. When I opened it, the content was different from what was manifested. Then I lost all my money and even acquired a huge debt. The manifest said second-hand cars, but what I saw inside was spare parts that were not even valuable. At the end of the day, I could not even get a quarter of my money back.”
He was to later change his account to say that they started the crime early in the year, instead of 2009. Asked when he met the second suspect, Henry Marsikoro, Ogwu said he had always known him and had met him at Ajegunle.
“We started this thing early this year. I know him before in Ajegunle, but I met him again at Tipper Garage in Ketu where he was working then. When we met, I told him that I would like us to start the business if he has the tool.”
The first time they went out together, they robbed an unsuspecting victim of N150, 000 at Ajao Estate. “We saw the person in that Ajao market, along the road. If you see the content of the poly bag he was carrying, you will know that it is money that is inside. The person then left the money in his car; went out to buy something and then we took it.”
On his part, Marsikoro, a tipper driver, said the person who introduced him to the crime was one Chibuike who has since travelled out of the country. It was the same person that gave him the master key.
His journey into crime started when Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State banned the movement of molue buses from going to CMS. “The work was not giving us money like before. After that I drove tipper for some time. Then the owner sold it. And I was left jobless.”
For Marsikoro, the fear of going to prison is not as palpable as the fear of losing his wife who he is fervently praying will not leave him because of the crime he committed.
The man, whose wife just had their second child, told our reporter: “My wife was very surprised when she heard about this thing. She was thinking that I was still driving tipper. And I pray that she will not leave me. I am disappointed at my action. My family members have all refused to come and see me here. They feel embarrassed because of what I have done.”
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