A medical practitioner, Dr Tajudeen (surname
withheld) and Pastor Isaiah (surname withheld) have
confessed about how they robbed banks in the last
few months before they were arrested by Operatives
of the Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State
Police Command, southwest Nigeria.
Dr Tajudeen, Pastor Isaiah and one musician were
paraded Thursday in Lagos by the police after their
arrest.
The suspects are said to be members of an armed
robbery gang that has been terrorizing banks in the
southwest.
Speaking with journalists when they were paraded in
Lagos, the doctor said he joined the gang after he was
sacked from the General Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos.
"My younger brother introduced me to one
Confidence who in turn took me to our leader,
Fineboy. The first robbery operation was when I
drove the gang to a filling station at the Okoko area of
Lagos. The second was the First Bank robbery and the
last one was the Access Bank robbery where we killed
three police officers.
"We did not succeed in our operation and police
officers arrested us. I swear to God as a medical
doctor, I have never handled guns, it was because I
had no money to renew my medical licence. I was
looking for N250, 000 to do the registration and I
could not opt out as I was afraid of Fine Boy though
he was later killed during a gun battle with the
police," he said.
On his part, Pastor Isaiah blamed the devil for his
woes. "I am a pastor, I will not tell you lies, and I
joined the gang when one Confidence ran to me for
cover when he was declared wanted by the police.
From assisting the man, he introduced me to
robbery. I provided my Honda bullet car for
operation.
He gave me N400, 000, and I still drove them to
First Bank robbery where I got N300, 000. We did
not succeed in the Acess Bank robbery and I was very
sad when I read in the papers that three police
officers were killed at the gun battle," he said.
The pastor said he wanted to quit but he was afraid
that their gang leader, Fine Boy, would kill him and
his family.