Chukwu-Emeka Egbemude, one of the four suspects arrested
by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for
tricking expensive phone sellers to desolate locations and robbing them
afterwards, has disclosed that his father warned him not to use his house as a
base for internet crime.
Egbemude, 22, a 200 level drop out of North American
University, Cotonu, Benin Republic, was arrested on Wednesday last week in
company of three other accomplices, who were fingered in the shooting of a
police officer, who attempted to arrest them in one of their botched robbery
operations.
The gang leader, Wilfred Ehis, a Chemical Engineering
graduate of University of Benin, Benin City, had in his confessional statement
to police stated that his task as the leader of the group was to source for
expensive phone sellers on online platforms. He pose as a lawyer, order for
expensive phones and accessories before waylaying the delivery man and rob him
of the consignment at a designated location.
Egbemude, confessed to the police that all he did since
dropping out of school was to pick fraud items for online fraudsters as well as
put Ehis through on how to carry out online fraud.
He added that he had been lodging from one hotel to the
other along with Ehis around LASU-Igando area because his father barred him and
his elder brother from using his residence as centre for online fraud.
According to him “I dropped out of school not because I
wasn’t brilliant but for my inability to pay my school fees. And, since I
returned to Nigeria, I started online fraud and picking fraud items for online
fraudsters in and out of Nigeria.”
The first picking job I did was for myself in 2016. Later,
I did another job for a “Yahoo Boy” which fetched me $400. I have been into
online fraud before I entered school in 2011.”
He continued: “I have done a lot of transaction for boys
including those that involved me travelling out of the country. Everybody in
the neighbourhood (Afolabi Bus Stop, LASU-Isheri Road) knows the kind of job
that I do.
I also help “Yahoo Boys” to pick money, expensive
wristwatches and rings. I go to bank to pick up the money for them and I get my
10% or 15% commission on every transaction. I have helped more than 50 boys
doing that kind of transaction.”
“My father got to know that I was into online fraud
because he sees me carrying laptops and heard me whenever I make calls to my
victims and trying to sound like an American…. He called me and told me point
blank that I should never in my life use his residence for such business. Since
2015, I have been moving with Ehis, lodging from one hotel to the other in
LASU-Igando Area,” he added.
Sources disclosed that apart from being a very close
associate of the ring leader of the gang, Egbemude is always with Ehis all the
time and he had dealings with Nurudeen, alias Onyabo, the notorious hit man of
the group.
According to Wilfred Ehis, Nurudeen has the two guns used
by the gang for their operations, and that he sneaked into Lagos through the
creeks of Ogun whenever they have operations.
Two of the five victims of the group’s robbery, who
identified themselves as Oluwaseyi Sanwo-Sunday and Alabede Habib on interview
said that the group used okada for their operations with two guns.
They added that Iyana school Bus Stop, along LASU-Iba
Road have been areas where they lured three of them to before dispossessing
them of those consignments Ehis posing as Barrister Deji ordered for.
The suspect along with the gang leader, Wilfred Ehis and
two others, Bright Eloho, 24, and Olanrewaju Kamilu, 33, has been transferred
to Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos for further investigations.
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