I shop online for expensive phones, my boys will rob the delivery man – Ehis

Officers of the  Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State Police Command have arrested  four suspected armed robbers , Wilfred Ehis, 30; Bright Eloho, 24, Emeka Egbemedu, 22 and Olanrewaju Kamilu, 33 , who specialize in robbing their online vendors at the point of delivery.

The gang had on 7 March, 2017 shot one Sgt. Garba Kadiri, RRS agent, while attempting to escape,  when they were tracked down by the officers in Pretty Street, Iyana School, LASU – Iyana Road.

The RRS operatives, working on reports from victims of the same robbery perpetrated by the gang, had tracked Ehis and his gang to a location in Iba, where the gang shot the officers before escaping. They were later arrested in Olamulti Hotel, New Site, Iba, Ojo, Lagos.

One of the suspects,  Ehis, a Chemical Engineering graduate of University of Benin, Edo State, confessed that  “what I do is shop online for expensive phones and goods. I request the sellers to make home delivery.

“I would send the delivery address to the seller. When the seller gets to the address, he would call me and I would control my boys to go to the delivery address and rob the seller”.

“That is my role. I shop online. Send the delivery address to the seller and make sure he is at the delivery address; then control the boys to collect the ordered items from him.

“I don’t follow them to the robbery scene. It is only Nurudeen, alias ‘Onyeabo’ that I know carry out the execution. I know he has a locally made short – gun. And, I am aware he had recruited other boys to join him in the robbery.

“All I do is stay in hotels. I don’t even go out at all. I am always indoor. They do the robbery, sell the phones and give me, my own share of the deal.

“Nurudeen is always in hiding. He doesn’t come outside since SARS, Lagos picked up his closest friend last year. He is short in size and he sneaks into Lagos mostly at night through the creeks from Ogun State”.

A Tecno Cq phone, an LG 3 Phone; One mobile phone; 2 Wrist watches, a Canon camera Eo87D; one neck lace, one Sony laptop, a wrap of Indian Hemp and an ash colour Altima salon car, with the registration No. APP 493 EH were recovered from Ehis.

About five victims from Computer Village in Ikeja have testified at the RRS headquarters, about the activities of the gang.

Two of such victims who came forward on Thursday were Oluwaseyi Sunday and Alabede Habib, in separate statements revealed  that Ehis, pretended to be one Barrister Deji , sometime in February 2017 and had  requested that expensive phones be delivered to him on two different addresses on LASU-Iyana Iba Expressway.

The victims claimed that they lost items worth about N800, 000 and N450, 000, when they were robbed by three of Ehis’s gang members , who attacked them on motor cycle at the delivery points.