Chukwu-Emeka Egbemude, 22 and 200 level
drop-out of North American University, Cotonu, Benin Republic who is among the four suspects arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response
Squad of the Lagos state police command for tricking expensive phone
sellers to desolate locations was
arrested recently in company of the three other accomplices, who were
fished out in the shooting of a police officer, who attempted to arrest
them in one of their botched robbery operations.
Wilfred Ehis, a chemical engineering
graduate of University of Benin, Benin City, Edo state, had in his
confessional statement to police stated that his task as the leader of
the group was to source for expensive phone sellers on online platforms.
According to NAIJ.com, in a statement with RRS, he posed as a lawyer, ordered for expensive phones and accessories
before waylaying the delivery man and robbing him of the consignment at
a designated location.
Egbemude
confessed to the police that all he did since dropping out of school was
to pick fraud items for online fraudsters as well as put Ehis through
on how to carry out online fraud.
He added that he had been lodging in hotels with Ehis around LASU-Igando
area because his father barred him and his elder brother from using his
residence as centre for online fraud.
“I dropped out of school not because I wasn’t brilliant but for my
inability to pay my school fees. And, since I returned to Nigeria, I
started online fraud and picking fraud items for online fraudsters in
and out of Nigeria.
“The first picking job I did was for
myself in 2016. Later, I did another job for a ‘Yahoo Boy’ which fetched
me $400. I have been into online fraud before I entered school in 2011.
“I
have done a lot of transaction for boys including those that involved
me travelling out of the country. Everybody in the neighbourhood
(Afolabi Bus Stop, LASU-Isheri Road) knows the kind of job that I do.
“I
also help ‘Yahoo Boys’ to pick money, expensive wristwatches and rings.
I go to bank to pick up the money for them and I get my 10% or 15
percent commission on every transaction. I have helped more than 50 boys
doing that kind of transaction.
“My father got to know that I was into
online fraud because he sees me carrying laptops and heard me whenever I
make calls to my victims and trying to sound like an American…. He
called me and told me point blank that I should never in my life use his
residence for such business. Since 2015, I have been moving with Ehis,
lodging from one hotel to the other in LASU-Igando Area,” he added.
According
to the report, Nurudeen, alias Onyabo, who is one of the suspects, has
the two guns used by the gang and he sneaks into Lagos through the
creeks of Ogun whenever they have operations.
The suspect and the gang leader, Wilfred Ehis and two others, Bright
Eloho, 24, and Olanrewaju Kamilu, 33, have been transferred to the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos for further investigations.
He added that he had
been lodging in hotels with Ehis around LASU-Igando area because his
father barred him and his elder brother from using his residence as
centre for online fraud. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1097462-my-father-warned-i-didnt-listen-robbery-suspect.html
Chukwu-Emeka Egbemude,
22 and 200 level drop-out of North American University, Cotonu, Benin
Republic, was arrested recently in company of three other accomplices,
who were fingered in the shooting of a police officer, who attempted to
arrest them in one of their botched robbery operations. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1097462-my-father-warned-i-didnt-listen-robbery-suspect.html
One of the four
suspects arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos
state police command for tricking expensive phone sellers to desolate
locations has confessed that he was warned by his father. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1097462-my-father-warned-i-didnt-listen-robbery-suspect.html
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