Economic Situation is Affecting One-Chance Business - Lagos Robbers

According to one of the six one-chance robbery suspects arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad, in Lagos, the economic situation in the country is affecting business.

The gallant operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command in the Abule Egba area of the state, have arrested a  robbery suspect, Adeleke Rasaq, along with an accomplice, Lucky John, on Sunday.

Rasaq who is one of the suspects terrorising residents of Abule Egba, Agege, Fagba and Egbeda areas of the state before he met his Waterloo, said the harsh economic condition in the country had affected their operations, adding that there was no money in the country.

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Rasak, who resigned as a factory worker, confessed to the police that he became a ‘one-chance’ robbery to survive.

“John and I lived in Badagry. Every day, we go to Abule Egba, Agege, Fagba, Egbeda to operate. As soon as we make enough money, we retire for the day. I teamed up with John because picking people’s pockets is not easy. We had to team up to make more money to survive. 

“We don’t make much money like before. The present economic condition in the country has greatly affected ‘one-chance’ robbery; everywhere is dry. Since Monday, we have been sharing N20,000, N30,000, and N40,000. Before, when I operate alone, I could make close to N150,000. Now, things are difficult,” he said.

Rasak said he resigned from the factory where he worked after he noticed that his friends in the Ajegunle area were living large. “It has been six years since I joined this gang. We don’t call it robbery, we call it hustling,” he added.

The RRS operatives also smashed another syndicate, which robbed two passengers in the Gbagada area of the state as members of the gang, Ubuke Michael, and Obinna Okoro, were arrested after their operational bus, had picked up the two passengers going to the Alaba International Market and Ladipo Spare Part Market to buy goods.

Ubuke, the leader of the gang, had allegedly invited a bus driver and a conductor to join the gang for the operation. “The driver and the conductor are familiar with the operation. I have so many commercial buses that I call for operations. I call them to join me at a particular location.

“The driver and the conductor would do their normal work while we collect belongings of the passengers before dropping them off. The two passengers in the bus were our victims that day.

“One of them came out of a bank before boarding our bus, while we noticed that the other had bulging pockets. We were about to collect their belongings when we were arrested. We don’t normally carry more than two passengers during operations. And whatever money we make, we share with the driver and the conductor; but our share is usually more.”