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Police arrest robbers who specialise in killing UBER drivers

Police  arrest  robbers who specialise in killing  UBER  drivers


The Rapid Response Squad (RRS)  of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested three suspected robbers who allegedly lured an  UBER driver into the bush and strangled him.
The robbers after strangulating the driver to a coma made away with his Toyota Camry, 2006 model.

The suspected UBER car hijackers were arrested early Thursday morning in Lekki when the suspects were on their way to hand over the snatched car to a buyer.

A police source, said, the suspected UBER robbers  Alagor 28; Effiong, 25, and three other suspects, still at large, had on Wednesday night requested for UBER through Alagor’s phone number.
” Supported by another member, Blessing, still at large, Alagor told the UBER driver, Ekwomi Charles, to take them to Abijo, GRA, from Jakande Estate, Lekki at around 11:00 p.m.
” Midway into the trip, Blessing, according to Alagor, the mastermind of the car snatching plan, told the driver that they were going to a birthday party in Shoprite, Sangotedo and that they were going to pick two other colleagues in Abijo, GRA, Ajah.


However, the lucky UBER driver who survived the strangulation, in his statement to the police, stated: “I agreed to pick their friends and drop them at the venue of the party as we were already in Abijo GRA. I noticed that their friends were not at the bus stop. I then became worried, but they called their friends and we agreed that I should drive into the Estate to meet them on their way. I drove about 100 meters but I still did not see them. I insisted that  I was going no further .”  As I insisted that I was going no further, the guys we were expecting actually came and that whittled down my suspicion.

Immediately the men entered the car, they tied a rope around my neck, as I was struggling with the rope, they started punching me till I passed out. Thinking that I was dead, they took me into the bush and dumped me near an uncompleted building. I thank God that I  later woke up. I was too tired but I managed to crawl out of the bush till I saw RRS patrol vehicle and  I reported the matter. I learned RRS men have arrested the suspects.
Another senior police officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the suspects, after presumably killing the UBER driver left one of them in Abijo GRA while three of them, Alagor, Blessing and another suspect, whose identity police are working on, drove the car to Shoprite, Ijeshatedo, to pick Samuel Effiong, who has   already negotiated with a buyer in Fashola Estate, Lekki.


One of the suspects, Effiong, in his confessional statement, said: “Blessing, some time ago told me that he wanted to sell a car. He called me on phone around midnight on Wednesday to take him to the person that wanted to buy the car. They picked me up in Shoprite, but  I did not follow them to where they stole the vehicle. 
” We were close to Fashola Estate when we ran into RRS patrol vehicle. They stopped us for a check. Blessing and his friend bolted while Alagor and I were arrested. They also arrested  Okoye ( aka  Tallest), who wanted to link us to the buyer.”

The police said they recovered a kitchen knife, ropes and a  fez cap at the scene where the driver was dumped.

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