Female Armed Robber Arrested During Operation in Lagos
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Crime News
A 29-year-old lady, Chioma Okafor has been arrested in Mowe,
Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State for alleged armed robbery.
Okafor was arrested alongside a 19-year-old boy, Nweke Joshua,
“while carrying out a robbery operation,” the Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola
Oyeyemi, said on Sunday.
Oyeyemi disclosed that the suspects were
arrested after a distress call was received at the Mowe police division at
about 9:30 p.m. Friday.
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The police had been informed that the suspected armed robbers had
invaded a food stuff shop owned by one Johnson Nwokoro at Safari Junction,
Adesan, while dispossessing him of his money.
Upon the distress
call, the DPO of Mowe division, SP Folake Afeniforo, was said to have
mobilized his patrol team and men of the So-Safe corps men to the scene, where
the two suspects were apprehended.
“On searching them, it was
discovered that they came to rob the shop with toy guns which looked perfectly
like original pistols,” Oyeyemi said.
The teenage boy informed the police that that it was Okafor who came
with the robbery operation ideas in order for them to have some money.
According
to Oyeyemi, Okafor was said to have bought the two toy guns, giving Nweke one
for the botched operation.
“They went to the shop and pretended
like customers, but they suddenly brought out guns and ordered the shop owner
to hand over all money in his possession to them,” the police spokesman said.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has directed
that the suspects be transferred to the State CIID for investigation.
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