on June 02, 2015 By Esther
Onyegbula
LAGOS—Operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, are
currently investigating a member of tricycle-snatching gang operating in Lagos
and its environs.
The suspect, identified as Emmanuel
Godwin, aged 28 from Edo State, said he was just a tricycle snatcher and not an
armed robber, since he does not use guns.
Godwin said he started snatching
tricycles to get rich quick and solve most of his problems.
It was learned that the suspect and
members of his gang pose as passengers, board a tricycle, get to a convenient
place, push the driver out and zoom off.
Emmanuel Godwin
He also looked for tricycles parked
along the street, in front of a compound or even near a restaurant.
Vanguard gathered that Godwin was first arrested by the Zonal Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, ZSARS, January 1, while attemp-ting to steal a tricycle.
However, luck ran against him when
he stole another tricycle last week and the owner decided to report to the
state’s SARS.
Following an investigation
personally led by officer in charge of SARS, Abba Kyari, the suspect was nabbed
at Ijora, where he went to sell a tricycle he stole.
He was arrested when he was asked to
come and collect money from a potential buyer, who needed a tricycle urgently
and had cash to pay, not knowing that the purported buyer was a SARS operative.
Emmanuel said: “I am a tricycle
snatcher, not an armed robber because I don’t use gun. I steal from park and
when I ask tricycle rider for a test drive and he allows me, I run away with
the tricycle.
“The market price of a tricycle is
N400,000. But I used to sell each tricycle for N60,000. I stole five tricycles
and sold them to one Aye at Ijora.
“I also sold two to one Liwan. Aye
still owes me for two tricycles I sold to him, while Liwan is yet to pay for
another I sold to him.”
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