Why We Always Torture Our Male Victims - Female Robber

Nneka Orji, the head of a female robbery gang arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos has confessed that she and her girls derived joy from torturing their male victims because they were once victims of robbery attacks perpetrated by guys.

"I am not an armed robber because we did not operate with gun. Ours was more of brain works. We obtained by false pretence, otherwise called 419," 27-year-old Nneka said.

Speaking on their mode of operation, the lady who hails from Otolo Nnewi, Anambra State, said: “I had been a victim of the crime for which we were arrested. I was tortured and nearly raped. But for the leg kick I gave to one of the criminals who attempted to rape me after the gang had duped me of my life savings, I would have been raped.

“If I mention the amount, you would not believe me. I have fallen victim to many wicked men. Some who said they wanted to marry me later became gold diggers and abandoned me after milking me dry. These wicked acts made me to hate men, especially the criminally-minded ones.

“However, God gave me a reliable fiancé. His name is Mr. Okey Holland from Nnewi. He travelled to Holand on a business trip and we hope to do our traditional marriage and a society wedding the moment he returns from Holland.

“For now, I reside with my uncle, one Mr. Ikechukwu Ndu of No. 14, College Road, Ogba. He knows that I am into 419 business.

“I was arrested for armed robbery when we did not rob with arms. In fact, what we did was not armed robbery. It was a common 419 deal. Why it looked like armed robbery was that our victim, a lady, jumped out of our operational vehicle, shouting ole! ole!! (robber! robber!!), which attracted an irate mob and the police at Alausa (Lagos). We were arrested and handed over to SARS.

“The officer in charge of SARS, SP Abba Kyari, even instructed the investigating police officer, Coporal Ediga Augustine, not to put us in confirmed armed robbery cell until he had finished the investigation. Our business is to defraud people. We are not armed robbers.”

Asked what role he played in the gang, she said: “My role is very clear. I played the role of a catcher. I speak the word to the victim and if it catches him or her, others will start working on him or her.

“For instance, if a victim enters our cab, my role is to open up a discussion by speaking the word, like telling him or her that we had dollars in the vehicle or that a foreigner or an Alhaji wanted his dog to sleep with me but I ended stealing plenty of dollars from him before I escaped. I would tell the passenger that the problem was how to change it or where to take it to.

“If the passenger is foolish and expressed interest, we would start working on him or her. But if he or she did not show interest, we would drop him. I was also a victim before I joined them.”

Asked how they were able to torture men without guns, she said they used to push stubborn men out of their vehicle while in motion, making them to sustain serious injuries.

“At times, we would pull their manhood with our hands until they felt serious pains and made forced promise to the gang not to involve the police,” she added.

According to an insider in SARS office in Lagos, Nneka and her four other accomplices will be charged to court soon for robbery. But Nneka is begging them not to do so, she's insisting that they are "common criminals" and should be treated and tried as such.

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Teenager Sentenced To Prison For Robbing Policeman

A Chief Magistrate's Court sitting in Abeokuta on Tuesday jailed a teenage boy, Chukwade Nnorom, for stealing, conspiracy and unlawful possession of items belonging to a Nigeria Police Officer, Mr. Michael Kogi.

The Prosecutor, Insp. Augustine Ozimini, told the court that Nnorom conspired with another person now at large, to commit the said offences on March 12 at about 3pm.

According to Insp. Ozimini, “The accused with his conspirator wrapped a rubber slippers pierced with four big nails in a polythene bag and carefully placed it under the tyre of Kogi’s vehicle.

“They monitored him as he went into a commercial bank to make some withdrawal. After he left the bank, he moved for a while and discovered that his tyre had been punctured.

“As he was struggling to remove the flat tyre, Nnorom and his conspirator went with a motorcycle and took away N278,000 and other valuables from the car.”

Insp. Ozimini, who presented the money, a locally-made master-key and other items recovered from the convict as exhibits, said the victim being a policeman alerted his colleagues on patrol about the incident, leading to the arrest of the teenage-robber.

He also tendered a confessional statement made by the Nnorom to the court as exhibit.

In his judgment, Chief magistrate Adesegun Adenariwo, sentenced Nnorom to one year imprisonment for stealing and another one year for conspiracy. He however gave him an option of N10,000 fine on each count.

The Chief Magistrate also sentenced the teenage-robber to a one-year jail term on the third count, without an option of fine to serve as deterrent to others.

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Armed Robbery Gang Led By An Evangelist Arrested

THREE months after killing four persons during a bank raid in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the police in the state have apprehended five robbery suspects (all ex-convicts) that carted away about N22million during the operation.

The sharing formula was said to have led to their arrest as the leader of the gang now at large only gave the suspects N500, 000 each.

To show the authenticity of their catch, the Police led by the Police Commissioner Sani Mogaji led the suspects to the bank to demonstrate to the police, some members of the public and newsmen how they carried out the operation on November 22 last year.

The five suspects including one described by the Police as an Evangelist, Wale Aselu, on November 22 last year invaded a new generation bank in Akure, killed five persons and carted away N22 million.

The State Police Commissioner Sani Mogaji while parading them and others including another gang that robbed the Ifon branch of an old generation bank on September 27 last year said two persons, a civilian and a police inspector were killed during the operation.

On the five robbers that raided the new generation bank in Akure, the Police Chief said that the Evangelist was the coordinator of the operation and that a pre-operation conference was held in his church.

Mogaji added that the suspects included Ikechukwu Maduagwu, Fayemi Albert Olabusuyi, Mukaila Raji and Ropo Adeleye.

All the suspects confessed to newsmen during interrogation that they took part in the robbery while Ropo said he was given N100,000 for showing them the way of escape through Ikogosi in Ekiti State.

Ikechuwkwu said that he was asked to only park the money into Ghana Must Go bags during the robbery.

The Evangelist was said to have been arrested at a church in Akure following which he reportedly “sang” and others were picked up at their different hides out outside the state.

Speaking on the Ifon robbery, Mogaji said suspects included Chima Osuji, Chimezie Michael and Lucky Sunday.

Mogaji disclosed that “in the course of our investigations, we uncovered the identity of one Augustine Olumogwe who was the herbalist of the gang who later confessed to the crime.”

Also, three other persons suspected pipeline vandalism including Awolola Olabode, Oluyemi Adeniyi and Olalekan Ijaodoro have been arrested by a combined team of soldiers and policemen.

The combined team of security operative intercepted a Toyota Dyna truck with registration number XV 200 APP which was loaded with 30 kegs of petroleum products along Ore-Odigbo road.

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Edo Police Command parades 13 robbery suspects

Edo State Police Command yesterday paraded 13 suspected robbers allegedly involved in various robbery operations in different parts of the country.

The new Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr Umar Manko, who vowed to make life unbearable for criminals and cultists in the state, also disclosed that the two police officers who were on duty when nine suspects escaped from the cells of the command will face disciplinary action in accordance with laws of the force.

Manko explained that the robbers had, on the 10th of last month, attacked a house at Ugbor where they robbed

the occupants and kidnapped a two-year-old baby in the process.

He said the little girl was later rescued unhurt from the

captors in an uncompleted building along Dumez road in the state capital. He said two of the suspects are on the run while efforts are on by operatives of the anti-robbery unit of the command to track them down.

Also arrested by the command is 42-year-old Gooddluck Ibobo, a father of seven children who confessed to participating actively in the protracted Ijaw/Itsekiri ethnic war that left hundreds of people dead and several houses burnt in Delta state.

Ibobo, who was released on bail while standing trial for alleged murder case at the Magistrate court in the state but later veered into armed robbery, confessed that he fled Delta State for Edo State where he got married to three wives who bore him the seven children.

On the nine suspects that escaped from the police cell, the CP said, “out of that number, only one of them was actually involved in a robbery operation. Others are just petty thieves.”

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Man Robbed McDonald's Wearing Barrack Obama Mask

The police are now on the trail of a man who robbed a McDonald's outlet in South Florida at gunpoint while wearing a President Barack Obama mask.

The crime which was committed last Saturday has thrown the Riviera Beach police into confusion. The White House is said to be angry with the sad development, but no official reaction yet.


According to findings, the masked man ordered everyone into a back office and told the manager to put available cash in a cloth bag.

Police authority say the thief, who was captured by the CCTV, is about 6-feet tall and wore all black clothing and white gloves. They are pleading with members of the public to volunteer information that could help in the arrest of the criminal.

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74 yr old woman, fought crazy knifeman as he stabbed her six times

A hero pensioner has told how a silent prayer gave her the strength to fight off a knife-wielding maniac who stabbed her six times at a bus stop in a random attack.Tiny Maria Morrison, 74, felt her life ebbing away as David Walters screamed ‘Die! Die!’ during the frenzied, unprovoked assault.

However, after saying a prayer Maria was able to push her attacker away.Walters fled and Maria managed to get help. She was rushed to hospital, and was treated for stab wounds to her back, hand, and mouth.Now for the first time she has relived the horror attack at a bus stop in Arrowfield Road, near Southern Cemetery in Chorlton, Greater Manchester.She said: ‘I had just sat down when something came at me. I didn’t realise what it was. He was slashing at me.’

By instinct she put her right hand up as Walters tried to stab her in the neck.The knife went into her hand, causing terrible injuries, and the force of the blow also cut her lip as she tried to protect her face.Maria said: ‘I tried to escape. But he grabbed me by the shoulder and put me against the fence of the cemetery.

I thought I was dying. The knife was a millimetre from my neck. I thought I can’t hold on any more, I can’t fight it. My leg was shivering and I was cold. I felt like my body was giving up.

Then something came into my mind - I don’t know where it came from. I held his hand as hard as I could. I knew then I wasn’t on my own, because I said ‘please God help me’ and he did.‘I was very weak but I found strength. It was like someone was pushing me to hold him off. I felt like I was dying but after I got hold of him he went away.

I said ‘God thank you’ because no way could I have done that on my own.’Walters fled, leaving Maria badly injured. She managed to stagger to a neighbour’s house, then flagged down a passing car.Maria, from Chorlton, said: ‘I was taken into hospital and the doctors and nurses were waiting for me. A doctor said they would wait until the day after for my operation on my hand.

‘I thought ‘Oh my God, am I going to get through the night?’ Walters, of Vixen Close, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and will be sentenced on April 2 at Manchester Crown Court.

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Man docked for stealing of Policeman’s N30,000

A 28-year-old man, Jamiu Surakat, who allegedly stole N30,000 belonging to a policeman, Sgt. Henry Okon, during the nationwide strike and protests against Federal Government removal of fuel subsidy, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos.

The accused and others at large were said to have stolen the N30,000 from Sgt. Okon when he, alongside other policemen, were removing illegal roadblocks mounted by Surakat and his accomplices on January 13, 2012 at Freeman and Igbosere Streets, Lagos Island, Lagos.

According to the charge, Surakat and his accomplices also damaged a police walkie-talkie held by Sgt. Okon and breached public peace by blocking the streets with tyres and woods, which created problem for people of the area.

The accused is facing a four-count charge of conspiracy to commit felony, stealing, malicious damage and breach of public peace, punishable under sections 409, 285, 348 and 44 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.

Magistrate L. Balogun granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum, who is to furnish the court with verifiable residential and office addresses.

The case has been adjourned till February 3, 2012 for further hearing.

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Grandfather who stabbed burglar to death in 'fencing match'

A terrified householder grabbed a carving knife and fought a ‘fencing match’ with machete-wielding burglars, a court heard yesterday.

During the struggle, an intruder was stabbed and died from his injuries later.

Grandfather Peter Flanagan, 59, was arrested on suspicion of murder but prosecutors ruled he should face no charges because he had acted reasonably to defend himself.

The decision followed a pledge by David Cameron that homeowners who defend themselves against intruders should not be prosecuted provided they use ‘reasonable force’.

Mr Flanagan said yesterday that he felt ‘lucky to be alive’ and was still haunted by the memory of confronting the gang in his home in Salford last June.

The mechanic was on his own and had gone to bed at 11.45pm when he was woken by the sound of breaking glass and a ‘loud thud’ downstairs, prosecutor Nicoletta Amatino told Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court.

Mr Flanagan, who is partially deaf, went to investigate without putting in his hearing aid, and dressed only in his underwear.

He was confronted at the bottom of the stairs by a masked man waving a 12in machete and shouting: ‘Sit down and stay there.’

Another man in a ski mask barged past him and ran upstairs, and Mr Flanagan saw two others standing outside his smashed back door.

Miss Amatino told the court: ‘Mr Flanagan said he was terrified and in fear for his life so he picked up a carving knife in the kitchen.’

One of the burglars, former soldier Wesley Gibbons, swung the machete at Mr Flanagan, who countered the blow in what he described as a ‘fencing match’.

The foot-long machete flew into the air and was grabbed by another raider, John Bennell.

Mr Flanagan grappled with the burglar to try to disarm him as the struggle went into the living room, Miss Amatino said, adding: ‘In an attempt to defend himself, he jabbed John Bennell with the knife.’

Bennell, of Hyde, Manchester, dropped the machete only as he was chased outside, and CCTV showed all four burglars fleeing.

The injured Bennell collapsed after 300 yards, and the three others left him in the street, although one stopped to call for an ambulance.

Bennell, who was on police bail for a separate burglary, died in hospital.

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