THE operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team IRT) have arrested two suspected car snatchers, Lanre Kayode,34, and Olanrewaju Aremo aka Deputy.
The two suspects, according to police sources, had been terrorizing parts of Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos and Ogun states and robbing residents of their vehicles.
The arrest of the suspects followed a petition to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, who ordered the IRT’s operatives to fish out the armed robbery suspects shortly after they struck on July 14, 2017.
Recovered from the suspects are one locally made pistol, two live cartridges, assorted charms and one Nokia phone.
In his confession Lanre said, “I am married with three children. I am from Idoyi in Ondo state but I sell fake wine and do shoe maker(sic) work in Ado Ekiti. It was one late Simon that introduced me into production of fake wine.
‘’I was later arrested, charged to court and jailed. It was in prison that I met Aremo aka Deputy. I had another friend called Showlighter when I was in prison. It was this Showlighter that introduced me to deputy in prison. Showlighter diverted a truck which he later sold with some goods and he was arrested and jailed.’’
Upon his release, Lanre relocated to Ilepo in Ado Ekiti, where he met and held meetings with Deputy, who also had just been released from prison.
The duo later hatched plans to snatch cars in order to raise a sum of N1 million to start production of fake wine.
In his confession Aremo said “I was a driver to a company that distributes beer. When some cartons of beer were diverted, I was arrested and sent to jail. With a screw driver, I can open and start any vehicle , because I used to smuggle vehicles from Togo to Nigeria and from Ghana to Nigeria before I was arrested.
“I was arrested when I needed small money to get driving licence like N25,000. Lanre asked me to help him on how to get N1m to procure license for wine production and NAFDAC paper (sic). I remembered that one Segun told me that he needed a Lexus car or jeep and brought the idea to go and snatch vehicle. Unfortunately the police arrested us after our successful armed robbery operation.’’
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