Robbers In Car Crash On Their Way To Sell Stolen Car

A gang of robbers which specialises in snatching cars at gunpoint in Warri, Delta State, has been arrested by the police, after they got involved in a car accident.
Christopher Ode, Oke Ese, Dauda Kola and Tope Ajayi, members of the gang, were on their way to Abuja to dispose of the Toyota Highlander Jeep valued at N2.8m, when the crash that eventually led to their arrest occurred.
The suspected criminals told The Nigerian Times that they were on their way to deliver the vehicle to one Alhaji Zakari in Kaduna whom they said was their major customer, before they had the crash just before Abuja.

According to the suspects, the car marked KJA 696 CD was snatched from one Benice Egodo at Edjeba, near Warri.
Ibadan-born Kola, 23, explained that they were trying to tow the crashed car after the Alhaji instructed them to bring the car to Kaduna by all means.
“We used a gun to collect the car after Alhaji asked us to bring it. One boy gave us the gun. But on our way to Abuja, we had an accident with the car. He (Alhaji) asked us to tow it to Abuja. I started robbery after my shop was scattered by government,” he said
Police in Delta were said to have trailed the suspects to the road leading to Abuja, while they were towing the vehicle away.
Meanwhile, kidnappers of former Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chudi Nwike, who later killed him, have confessed that they murdered the late politician because his wife could not produce the N30m she agreed with them.
Godspower Ovwigho, 27 and Stanley Efetobor, 29, told journalists that that their gang killed the former deputy governor because his wife was becoming too difficult to negotiate with.
Their confession: “We killed the former deputy governor because his wife was proving difficult. We demanded N30 million but they gave us only N5 million. After the payment, they promised to give us more but did not. It was Rufus that shot him dead when the wife refused to pay more. Rufus is our leader.
“We held him hostage in a three-bedroom flat in Kokori town, Delta State. When the negotiators brought the money and Rufus discovered it was N5 million, he drove all of them away. He, thereafter, charged into the bedroom where the deputy governor was and told him that his wife was daring us.


“He called the victim’s wife on the phone and asked why the money was slashed. She told him that was all they were able to gather. Out of anger, he shot the former deputy governor four times and called his wife again on the phone and told her to use the balance to organise his burial.”
The ransom was paid on April 5, but the kidnappers, after collecting the money and killing their victim, cut off all further communications. The lifeless body of the former Deputy Governor who was kidnapped on March 19,was discovered thereafter.