When the Chief Justice of Lagos State,
Justice Ayotunde Philips, freed 233
inmates from the Kirikiri Prison, in
September 2012, she urged them to
go and sin no more.
However, barely one year after,
one of the inmates, Musa Ojo,
has been arrested for alleged
armed robbery. The suspect
and stolen car. The suspect and
stolen car.
Operatives of Special Anti-Robbery
Squad, SARS, Ikeja, said they reportedly
arrested Ojo and two others, now at
large, on September 14, after they
snatched a Toyota Corolla car at
gunpoint.
Police sources that SARS men, who were
on patrol at the Ijesha end of Oshodi-
Apapa Expressway, saw the robbers and
chased them.
The sources said: "The suspects jumped
out of the vehicle, when the heat
became too much, and took to their
heels." Ojo, was, however, arrested and
the vehicle recovered, while the other
two escaped.
The suspect admitted to Vanguard that
he spent one and a half years in prison
before being pardoned along with 232
others by the state Chief Judge. The
suspect said he went back to robbery
because he was tempted by his
colleagues and undercover agents.
He said: "I dropped out of school in JSS2
and became an apprentice mechanic but
I did not complete my training. After
sometime, I got a girl pregnant and
became a father with responsibilities.
"Unfortunately, my father is dead and my
mother is old so I have no one to help
me. "After leaving prison, I started
receiving calls from people that they
needed vehicles and I was short of
money.
"So, I told myself that if I could steal just
one car, I would be okay. I did not know
that the police had been on my trail from
the day I was released."
source: www.naij.com