A victim of armed robbery attack at Ojota and Mile 12 axis has revealed how bandits, determined to collect his two phones, inflicted machete cuts on him. This was even as operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State Police Command, said that eight suspects had been arrested in connection with such attacks in the area.
The victim, Mr. Adebayo Ogunleye, said: “It was God’s intervention that I was not killed that night. I was struggling for survival, drinking my own blood before I was able to cross to the other side of the road and escape.”
Ogunleye told the police that he was waylaid by an assailant between Ojota and Mile 12. He stated that the robber inflicted machete cuts on him while trying to collect his Microsoft Lumia 535 & Tecno T5. The robber also collected his wallet containing BVN card, First Bank Verve card and Master card, among other items.
One of the suspects, 27-year-old Dapo Simeon, nabbed along with seven others for robbing passers- by at Ojota, Ketu and Mile 12 at night, confessed to have lost count of the number of people he had attacked and robbed in those areas. Simeon, a bricklayer, told the police that he started with pickpocketing three years ago and graduated into robbery.
The suspect said that he specialised in stealing phones, jewellery and money. He said: “I can’t remember the number of phones I have stolen and collected from passers-by at Ojota, Ketu and Mile 12. I was trained by Olasege and later Femi. Both of them are my bosses. They live in Mushin, Idi-Oro area.”
