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30-year-old robbery suspect, Ejike Nkennachor shocked police detectives
recently in Lagos when he boldly narrated how he masterminded a prison break at
the Maximum Prisons, Shagamu, Ogun State, to form a notorious robbery gang that
specializes in snatching exotic cars. The stocky-black suspect from Asaba,
Delta state went further to state that he was frustrated with the slow nature of
justice in the judiciary and that was why he encouraged other inmates to join
him in breaking out of the prison.
Ejike, as he is popularly called, who spoke with
Crime Alert after he was arrested with two others in Laqgos and Oyo states by
operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad,SARS, Ikeja, Lagos State, said
they capitalized on the arrest of cult members in the area to plan the jail
break.
The State Commissioner of Police Umar
Manko, while Parading the suspects before newsmen said, the officer in-charge
of SARS, Abba Kyari arrested the suspects after he got information that the
gang snatched a Toyota Camry saloon car from a woman in Ilorin, Kwara State and
took it to Ibadan where they hope to sell the car to a ready buyer.
According to the Police boss, Kyari and his men
proceeded to Ibadan and apprehended one of the suspects called Samuel in a
popular hotel. They then used him in apprehending the leader of the gang,
Ejike and one other member called, Dada.
Cp Manko disclosed that two locally- made single
barrel pistols, twenty live cartridges, an unregistered Toyota Camry Saloon
Car, Toyota Carina with registration number, KWL 753 AJ and one Land Rover Free
Lander Jeep with Reg No AGL 672 AP, were recovered from the suspects.
The leader
of the gang, Ejike Nkennachor told Crime Alert that he led his cell mates to
breakout of the Maximum Prison due to the slow nature of Ogun State judiciary.
The suspect explained that he had spent a long time at the prison and does not
want to spend the whole of 2013 in the prison.
According to him; “When I was arrested in 2008
at the state Criminal Investigations Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos for car
snatching, I was charged to court but members of my family paid money to a
lawyer that secured my release. I spent only four months at the Ikoyi prison
and my case was discharged for want of evidence.
After my release, I went back to car snatching
because I know my family will always come for me. I did it for some time and I
snatched several exotic cars including a Mercedes Benz car that was valued
around N12 million but I sold it for N800,000 to my receiver at Asaba, Delta
State.
Then, I avoided Lagos State and I and members of
my gang, were operating in Ogun State. Unfortunately for me, I was
arrested by Ogun State special anti-robbery squad,SARS, after I stole a car.
They caught me driving the stolen car at Shagamu and they intercepted it and
later sent me to prison.
My stay at the prison was quite very long and
the judiciary in the state did not help matters. Luckily, there was this fight
between members of Black Axe confraternity and the Eye confraternity and a lot
of them were arrested and remanded in the same cell with me at Shagamu Prison.
At that time, I was terribly frustrated.
The cult boys told me that they don’t want to spend the new year in the
prison. I told them not to worry that I had a plan. On the eve of the new
year, members of my cell and those from another cell started a protest and we
fought the warders on duty at the prison.
We dug a big hole on the prison wall and
we escaped from there. Some of us were killed while trying to escape but I
succeeded and ran to Ikorodu. I contacted my family members and
informed them about my escape. They begged me to come back to my home
town at Asaba and I refused. I contacted Samuel and informed him that I was out
of prison and he was very happy.
I then informed him that I will be relocating to
kwara State where I will form a new gang, he accepted. I contacted Emmanuel
Dada and one of our police friends and we robbed some cars. But the one that
got me into real trouble was the one we robbed at Tanke-Ilorin, Kwara State.
We instructed Samuel to look for a buyer for us
in Ibadan and we were called to come to Lagos to collect the money for the car.
That was how we were arrested. I wish I had listened to my family not to return
to this crime. I wish I will be given a second chance.” he pleaded.
Source: Vanguard
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