Police Arrest ‘Spirit’ For Robbery
LUCKY LAWAL
Spirit – a 20-year old Ahmed Adewole, notorious armed robber and ex-convict, who just returned from prison on the 11th of April, 2018, was paraded by the Lagos State Police Command for another robbery.
According to the report, ‘Spirit’ had been on the wanted list of the Police before and after he came out of prison.
Speaking to P.M.EXPRESS, Spirit admitted being a bandit who specialised in robbing people at gun point.
“I am an armed robber; I used to rob people of their money and phones with a locally made pistol. I was first arrested in Mushin by police patrol who raided the area and i was in prison for 6 months. I came out last month April 11th to be precise” he said.
He further confessed to have been introduced back into robbery by a friend named Rashidi Garuba. According to him,”I was introduced back into robbery by Rashidi my friend because,I didn’t have any other work I was doing. I am not the owner of the gun that we used for operation; it belonged to Rashidi and his brother Ayegboun. After operations, I used to return the gun to Rashidi and will give him money. I used to get N15,000,sometimes about N20,000 but the last operation, I robbed a passerby at Abule-egba and collected N27,000 and his phones from him”.
He further explained that he virtually got nothing from his criminal activities since he gave more than seventy percent of whatever he realised to the two brothers who owned the gun he used.
The suspect, a.k.a Spirit, hinted that his friends called him spirit because of the fast and neat way he carried out his robbery operations.
According to the Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi, the suspect was arrested at a guest house at Abattoir area in Agege alongside others.He said that the suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigations into the case were over.
