26-year-old Victoria Momidu, is a lady one could described as a shy person at first glance. But as sh-e stood along with he-r partner in crime behind the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Command, Ikeja, one could best imagine how calm but deadly sh-e could be while operating alongside h-er robbery gang.
Victoria and one other member of h-er gang were arrested recently by the me-n of Lagos State SARS, who had been on their trail after receiving a tip-off about the gang’s plan.
In he-r confession, Victoria said: “I was hustling before I met Okokawon, who is my boyfriend. H!e told me to join h!s gang. When sh-e was asked to explain what sh-e meant by hustling, sh-e replied in one word “prostitution.”
Sh-e and he-r gang had robbed some passengers along the Mile 2- Badagry Expressway. They operate from private cab, a police source alleged.
It all began some months ago, Victoria narrated. Sh–e said another member of the gang, Okolawon, (also in SARS custody) had approached h-er on the need for h-er to join the gang.
Victoria Momidu said sh-e was once a prostitute but had to stop prostituting six months ago because sh-e was not making enough money from the aged long profession.
“I ran away from my husband’s house in February, abandoning my three children in the process. I came to Lagos to hustle soon after I left my husband and children in Benin. It was a lady I met inside a commercial bus at Mile 2 Motor Park that introduced me to prostitution. Sh-e took me to where sh-e was leaving in a hotel at Seme. I later joined other ladies in the act.“I was making between N2000 and N3,000 per night anytime I have a customer, who will take me home for the night. This was what I was doing, until I met Okokawon. He came to the hotel where I was staying along with some friends to drink. He later asked me if I will spend the night with him,” sh-e said.
Sh-e added that Okolawon came back three weeks later to take h-er out again, saying that they actually spent the whole day together. Sh-e explained that it was at their third outing that Okolawon started picking passengers with h!s car, a thing which he had not done in h-er presence before.
“He picked up four passengers, who were going to Badagri, from Iyana Oba bus stop on that day. That was around 9p.m. Somewhere around Okoafon, he stopped, pretending as if the car had suddenly developed fault. It was a lonely stretch of road. Suddenly, another car stopped and the occupants of the car jumped out and I noticed that they were armed with dangerous weapons. They collected all cash and valuables that were in possession of the passengers,” sh-e said.
Vick, as sh-e is known by the gang, alleged that at first sh-e was afraid, but that sh-e later discovered that they were Okokawon’s armed robbery gang and that it was a planned attack.
“I was not given anything the first day out with the gang since it was my first experience. I discovered that I was only used to deceive passengers to board the car. The second time out I was given N10,000 after the operation. Outside cash, Okolawon goes with all phones collected from victims,” sh-e said.
Sh-e further confessed that sh-e eventually joined the gang after sh-e discovered that sh-e will make more money from the operation than prostituting.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Cornelius Kayode Aderanti, who confirmed the report, said that the suspect along with four others, were involved in series of robbery along the Mile 2/Badagry.
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