Chukwuemeka 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 cyber 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 , 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 and
the other along with Ehis around LASU – Igando area
because his father barred he and his elder brother from
using his residence for 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 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 Onyaebo, 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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