The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), has
apprehended a seven-man robbery gang spearheaded by a woman, Chioma Ezekwesiri,
in Lagos, south-west, Nigeria.
The suspects, 41-year-old Amadi Igwe, 24-year-old Raymond Chukwuka, 27-year-old
Ignatius Okeredi, 52-year-old Michael Madu, 52, and 28-year-old Okechukwu Jerome,
and Chioma were arrested while trying to rob Bolatito Hotel, located at Kola
bus stop,in Ijaiye area of Lagos.
According to Ezekwesiri, she had arranged for
the guns with Raymond Chukwuka which they were supposed to use for the
operation, which she insisted was a land matter, whereas the police said their
mission was allegedly to rob a male customer of the hotel who also sells
fertilizer of N8 million.
PM News reports;
The
alleged robbery operation, according to the police, was foiled by some staff of
the hotel, who promptly made a distress call to SARS operatives.
The law
enforcement agents were said to have surrounded the hotel, and later searched
all its occupants. It was in the process that two locally made guns and 12 live
ammunition were recovered from the robbery suspects.
“We
received a distress call from a staff of Bolatito Hotel, who said they
suspected some people around the hotel. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad moved
in, surrounded the place and demanded to search everybody. It was in the
process that two guns and 12 live ammunition were recovered in Chioma’s car.
This led to the arrest of all her gang members,” a top police source told P.M. News.
Following
their arrest and conclusion of investigation, the police took them to court.
Chioma,
35, who claimed to be a Law graduate from the University of Lagos, was remanded
in prison custody along with six other members of her gang by Magistrate A.O.
Komolafe of the Magistrates’ Court, Ikeja.
They
are facing a three count charge of robbery, conspiracy and unlawful possession
of firearms.
Chioma
claimed that she graduated from UNILAG in 1999, was called to the bar in 2000,
and owns a Non-Governmental Organisation, Youth of All Nations Empowerment
Association. But authorities of the University of Lagos said she did not graduate
from that institution.
An
officer of the school, who craved anonymity, said Chioma cannot claim to be an
alumnus of the university if she cannot provide her matriculation number.
“The
fact that she claimed to have gone to Law School with the first batch is not
substantial enough. UNILAG usually sends graduating students at a stretch, not
in batches. My position on the issue is that she did not graduate from UNILAG,
and so she was not our student,” the officer said.
Chioma’s
claim of being called to the Bar was also debunked by Barrister Tunji Busari of
Cognate Solicitors, who explained that “we have a directory for all lawyers. We
have all their names with the year they were called to bar, with their NBA
registration numbers. When I checked through her name in the directory, I could
not find her name in my record book.”
When
our reporter called Mr. J.E. Joshua, the chairman of Youth of All Nations
Empowerment Association, he denied that Chioma is the founder of the
association.
“She
just participated in a charity work which the association embarked on in April,
and promised to participate fully in other projects of the NGO. But we decided
to stop working with her when we realised that she wasn’t a straight forward
person. She is not working with us,” Joshua stated.
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