Nurudeen Kazeem, the alleged robbery
suspect, who was last week arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad
of the Lagos State Police Command over the shooting of RRS police officer
in LASU – Igando area, has confessed that he honed his shooting skills as a
cultist.
Nurudeen popularly known as
“Onyabo”, 27, a trained tailor turned okada rider, was arrested last week by
the Rapid Response Squad Decoy Team in connection with the shooting of an RRS
officer investigating chains of robbery cases in LASU – Iba/Igando area.
Nurudeen had shot the officer in the
leg while trying to dispossess a delivery man of some expensive phones one of
the gang members had ordered online for delivery at a specific address around
LASU – Iba Road.
Onyabo, while confessing to the
police stated that he shot the officer twice in the leg to avoid arrest.
He added that he was trained
to kill by cult members after his initiation into Eiye Confraternity.
“I have killed two people in the
past. One was to complement my initiation into Eiye Confraternity.
I was led to a beer parlour in LASU
– Iyana Iba axis, where I was showed a man to kill. I shot the guy there and I
escaped.
I killed another guy after shooting
at him, I also macheted the victim who was a member of an “Aiye” confraternity
in LASU/Iyana Iba area”, he explained.
He stated further, “I and a friend
of mine were forcefully initiated into Eiye Confraternity.
We were asked by some guys to use
our okada to take them to a naming ceremony.
Those guys changed the route after
bringing out guns to scare us and led us into a bush where other innocent guys
were to be initiated into the confraternity.
In the bush, they beat us
mercilessly. That was how we were initiated. Since then, they armed me with gun
and cartridges to kill people, particularly, rival cult members. It was while
doing this that I was invited into robbery by Cali (Wilfred Ehis),” he
disclosed.
He added “he invited me to assist
him in collecting phones from delivery men. He ordered the phone online, give
them the delivery address and we ambush the delivery men and collect the phones
at gun point.”
Wilfred Ehis, 30, was re – arrested
by the operatives after the arrest of Nurudeen.
According to investigations,
he had been the brain behind several robberies in LASU – Iyana – Iba and
Igando.
Sources revealed that Ehis lodged
and his gang members lodged in different hotels around the area.
Ehis, from whom a short gun was also
recovered sometimes in April, 2017 in company of three other accomplices had
confessed to the police that he hired Nurudeen Kazeem to help him rob delivery
men of online shopped phones.
According to Nurudeen, “I have done
this three times for Cali. I took the phones to him in his hotels, where he
stayed. The first operation, he gave me N60,000. The second, he gave me N50,000
and the third, N45,000. The fourth one was the one I shot the police officer.
I never knew he was a police
officer.”
Arrested along with Kazeem were:
Yusuph Bello, 33, the gang’s armourer from whom two guns and machetes were
recovered, and Sunday Hassan, 26, the gang’s bike rider.
All the suspects have been
transferred to the SARS office in Ikeja for further investigation.
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