The
Lagos State Police Command has arrested the robbers who attacked Mr. Wilson
Onazi, father of Super Eagles’ player, Paul Onazi, at his Jos, Plateau State,
home, Monday, carting away his Toyota Highlander SUV and other valuables.
Members
of the five-man robbery gang were arrested while at the verge of selling off
the SUV at a hotel in Imoda, Ajagbandi area of Lagos, by Anti-Crime Policemen
led by the Divisional Police Officer in Charge of Ajagbandi Division, Mr. Musa
Alimi. Four men, pretending to be postmen, stormed Onazi’s building on 57A,
Government Reserved Area, GRA, Utan, Jos, where they handed him a fake letter.
Thereafter, they collected his phone, a bag containing his personal effects and
zoomed off in the SUV. During preliminary investigation, the alleged mastermind
of the robbery attack was discovered to be a family friend of the Onazis. He
was identified as Kingsley David, a graduate of Psychology from the University
of Jos. Two other suspects were also graduates of different higher
institutions, while the rest were businessmen in Plateau and Lagos states.
Mastermind confesses
David,
who owns a popular boutique in Jos, was paraded before journalists at the
command’s headquarters yesterday. He stated that the gang’s intention was to
use the SUV to celebrate the just-concluded Eid el-Kabir, revealing also that
the robbery operation was planned in less than one week. He said: “I am a
family friend of the Onazis and I live close to their house in Jos. I initiated
the plan to attack him. The idea came up when I was discussing with my friends.
“We planned the attack in my shop and I showed them the house, with an
agreement to share whatever we got from the operation equally. “However, I did
not go with them for the operation because I did not want to be noticed.
I
waited for them at the junction and came to Lagos with them. They did not go
with guns because that was not part of the plan. They only went with a knife.
“When they went for the robbery, they told Onazi’s father they wanted to use
the car and return it later. We just needed the car to have fun during the
Sallah break.” ‘We got N5,000’ Another suspect, Ugochukwu Ebuka, 28, a Senior
Secondary Certificate holder from Idemili, Anambra State, disclosed that the
gang did not beat the victim as reported, adding that they only collected N5,000
from him including his ATM card, which they claimed they never made any
withdrawal with. Explaining how they stormed the building, Ebuka, who also
sells clothes in Plateau State, said: “Three us, Alliu, Joe and I went for the
operation. When we got to the gate, we knocked and he opened. “When we forced
our ways in, he tried to resist us but we held him and took him aside. We also
discovered that he was drunk and so did not beat him because he is an old man.
“When he discovered we were robbers, he begged us not to harm him and that we
should collect whatever we wanted. When we demanded for money, he said he had
no money with him and gave us just N5,000 cash. “We took his car because we
wanted to use it to escape. We drove straight to where we promised him we would
keep it. But on reaching the place, we called Feringanda. We thought keeping it
there would implicate us and Joe suggested we take it to Lagos, since he knew
those who would buy it. “We went there to get money and not the car because we
were told that he lived alone, and neither assist anyone nor like people coming
close to him.
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