The Operatives of Rapid Response Squad have arrested two robbers and members of Aiye and Eiye confraternities on Friday night after they failed to dispossess two occupants of a vehicle in Iyana Ipaja, Lagos State.
WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the suspects identified as Abbey Kolawole, (40), Ikenna Eze (30) and Femi (now at large) had accosted two occupants of a vehicle, who were having private discussions.
According to reports, the occupants were reported to have locked and rolled up themselves in the car before the suspects got there.
While narrating the incident, Eze disclosed that the leader of the gang, Femi ordered the occupants to alight from the car but they refused despite brandishing gun.
“He shot into the air, and threatened to shoot the occupants. He was attempting to fire the second shot when the locally made double barrel gun hooked”, he noted.
Shortly after his double barrel gun got hooked, the residents of the area had emerged to check what was happening but the robbers had fled in different directions and abandoned their gun before people could show up.
According to reports, the leader of the group escaped but Kolawole and Eze were unlucky as they got nabbed.
Eze further revealed that Femi invited the gang out to the house of a resident of Shagari Estate, Iyana – Ipaja with the intent of killing him.
He had stated that one of the occupants of the vehicle had earlier besieged Femi’s residence in Agege Abattoir in company of many cult members and threatened to kill him.
But Femi in retaliation wanted to maim the man first. “Femi was the one who knew the road, he escaped while we, strangers in that community, were arrested,” he added.