Lucky Obukohwo Reporting
A 39 year-old Law graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Williams Abiodun, has narrated how his gang of four members disguise as site workers, lure drivers to a site, dispossess them of their vehicles, kill and sell their vehicles to Chinese companies in Benin City, Edo State.
Abiodun, who said he hails from Owo, in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State made this disclosure while being paraded alongside ten other suspected criminals by the Edo State Police Commissioner, Muhammed Dankwara, at the Headquarters of the State Police Command, Benin.
He said, “what we do is that, we disguised as site workers going to site, then we call drivers to take us to the site, when we get to the site, we will collect their cars, kill them with blocks, and sell their cars.
“We killed the first one, collected his car and I sold it to the Chinese company.
” The second one was a Keke. We also sold it but the last one was the one that the police arrested us.
“We are yet to sell the Seinna Car, before we were arrested.”
Confirming Abiodun’s report, Akin Amadin said, he met Williams Abiodun in Auchi and he told him about the business.
“Abiodun told me that my job is to be watching to see who is coming. The first one we did, he gave me #35,000.
The second one was #55,000 and the last one was the Seinna Car but we could not sell it before the police caught us.
“We killed the three persons.” He said.
The gang is made up of Williams Abiodun 39; Emmanuel Joseph 30; ,Akin Amadin, 29, and the fourth person who is now at large.
Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Dankwara, while briefing the Press during the parade said the Police recovered N1.2m, sophisticated arms and ammunition, while 135 suspects have been arrested since his assumption of office in Edo State.
He however warned criminal elements in the state to call it quits or move out of the state or else have themselves to blame.
CP Dankwara stated that investigation shows that with the arrest of some of them, the crime rate in the state has gone down which implies that those in custody have always been key partakers in crime.
Among recovered items were 5 AK-47 rifles, locally made guns, pistols, 10 vehicles, 130 gas cylinders, two motorcycles.