The suspects, Ernest Emele and Sunday Victor were arrested around Sahad Stores area after robbing a female passenger who boarded the vehicle they used in picking passengers who didn’t know they had criminal intentions.
It was gathered that the duo that had been on the wanted list of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), police met their end after the lady they had robbed raised an alarm that attracted the policemen who were on security duty around the area and gave the thieves a hot chase and eventually caught up with them.
According to the police, Ernest and Sunday who have been in the one chance criminal gang for a long time prior to their arrest, usually operate in a cab with which they pick passengers but eventually rob them.
They operate by driving round Abuja, targeting the busy areas like banks, shopping malls, eateries, schools and busy bus stops. They carefully select their victims whom they rob while in motion and forcefully pushing them out of the moving vehicle.
But they were not so lucky on that bad day as they could not escape like they used to do in previous operations.
According to the police, their victim, a young lady had gone to bank to make some withdrawals and went to shop at Sahad, and boarded the cab, not knowing the driver and the passenger who agreed to take her to where she was going were robbers.
On boarding the vehicle, she said she had barely taken her seat when they pounced on her and tried to rob her. “Immediately, I shouted because I thought they were going to rape me and struggled with them over my bag and shouting for people to come to my rescue.
“But they succeeded in robbing me of my bag and pushed me out of the vehicle which attracted the police that incidentally were in the area and came to my rescue.
“After picking me up, they got into their patrol van and gave the criminals a hot chase and eventually caught up with them, but for the police I don’t know what would have happened to me,” she told Abuja Metro.
The police later found on the suspects some chemical suspected to be what they use in putting their victims to sleep, various mobile phone handsets, master keys, knives and other dangerous weapons.
They all confessed to the crime but attributed their act to the harsh economic situation in the country.
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