22-year-old traffic robber shares details of gang's operations

Biodun Omoyeni, 22-year-old traffic robber is sharing details of his gang's operations.

In a statement given to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), he describes his gang's tactics and how a Rasiq dragged him into traffic robbery.

"Once there is traffic, we strategise and we start operating. One of us from the driver side tells the motorist that the tyre is punctured while the other person through the window takes the phones, money, wallets, pad and other valuables from the other side.

is a meat seller at Sabo, Ikorodu. He is homeless and we have been to four operations together. We stole up to 19 phones in those operations. We always operate in Ajah. We meet in Mushin and Ojuelegba whenever we want to operate before heading to Lekki and Ajah. We work as conductors for commercial buses and we use that to monitor traffic till 7:30pm when it has built up before we start operating."

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Eugene Paul, a victim, said he did not know he had been robbed.

“I didn’t know from the other side of my car has taken my phones and some money. I was still in the car when a fellow motorist told me that they have stolen my phones."

Another traffic robber, Olaoluwa Saheed, attributed his success to Lagosians, who are intimidated by anything that looks like a gun.

"We have been very successful before because Lagosians are timid. They flee at the sight of anything even if it is toy gun. We have not been having issues and we have been making money."