Like a cockatoo, Kamoru Ganiyu, a native of Iwo town in Osun State, has narrated to the Oyo State Police Command how he returned to armed robbery barely two months after he was released from the Abolongo Prison in Oyo town and led a gang in Ibadan and robbed a man of his car. Kamoru (28), who said that his parents were living in Ondo State but had disowned him, was arrested by the Oyo State Police on April 27, 2016 and paraded along with four other suspects at the Eleyele Police Command Headquarters.
The Police Commissioner, Mr. Leye Oyebade, paraded 22 suspects comprising different gangs, who were arrested at different locations in connection with sundry criminal offences. He, however, lamented that three of the suspects were exconvicts, who went back to armed robbery after their release from prisons. Kamoru and Agu Onyeka (21), Biodun Jamiu (34), Dare Azeez (21), and Nurudeen Bilawu (30) were arrested at Iwo, a day after they had robbed Mr. David Niyi Abel of his Toyota Camry Muscle, marked DL 994 LLD at Akobo Oju Irin area of Ibadan along Olorunda- Aba area in Ibadan. The police recovered the car and a Tecno Android phone belonging to the victim from the suspected armed robbers. One of suspects shot the car owner in the left wrist before speeding off with the car. Luck, however, ran out on them as the car had a flat tyre and the robber, who fired the shot, abandoned the car, but was arrested later.
The arrest was the end of the road for the four others. Speaking with team, Kamoru said, “I was released from Abolongo Prison in Oyo town on February 2, 2016. I had been remanded for armed robbery offence because there was no one to secure my bail. On that fateful day, Biodun and Nuru called me and other colleagues on April 26 to meet them at Iwo Road. We went to snatch a car around Oju Irin at Akobo.
“One of us, who had two guns, asked us to meet him there. We saw the man park his car by the side of the road. We swooped on him, and eventually when the man was running away, one of us, Radical, shot him in his left wrist and drove off the car later had a flat tyre. “The followWe received a call asking us to come and meet the man, who wanted to buy the car. On getting there, we were arrested because we did not know our man had been arrested,” he said. Narrating why he went back to the business of crime, Kamoru said, “I went back to robbery because since I was released from prison, I did not have anywhere to stay or sleep. I was sleeping in vehicles and uncompleted buildings.
