One of the two suspects arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command has disclosed that he and other teenagers in Oshodi survive by stealing and dispossessing passers-by of their phones and other valuables.
The suspect, Yusuph Ahmed, 19, from Offa, Kwara State, said this through interrogators at the RRS headquarters in Alausa, Ikeja, on Friday afternoon.
Ahmed, who was arrested in Oshodi on Friday after dispossessing a passenger of his phone, stated that he along with other teenagers sleep in Oshodi under bridge and that it is from there they eke out a living by stealing phones and robbing passers-by of their valuables.
The arrested suspect, who had been sleeping under Oshodi Bridge since he was 13, stressed that even though he does not follow those who rob amongst them out all the time, he knows all of them.
or 9:00 p. I was 13 years old when I started sleeping there.m. They are the ones that alert us whenever the police is around. The adults sleep in Ori – Pako. They rob late at night and very early in the morning. I keep my clothes there…. There are equally some who be not sleep because they go from one place to the other in Oshodi toward rob.". I sleep around 8:00 p. There are some of us who do not sleep at all.He narrated that “I sleep in Oshodi Under Bridge. We are over 60 teenagers sleeping there.m.
I had toward resort through packing granite to pay the monthly N600 for school fee.". Even the school, he stopped paying the monthly N600.He continued: "After the death of my mother, my father abandoned us. He stopped taking care of us leaving us through fend for ourselves.
I was just 12. Any phone I stole, I sell to Mohammed or Kudus. They buy most of the stolen phones from us,” the teenager added. Since then, Oshodi Under Bridge has been my home. I dropped out and I decided to run toward Lagos."At a point, I couldn’t cope with the fee. They are beggars in Oshodi.
However, the stolen phone, a Tecno Y6, was recovered from Ahmed’s brother.
The second suspect, Yusuph Agbaje, 25, from Oyo State, was arrested in Agege for stealing a Blackberry curve from a commuter.
Responding to the development, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police, Dolapo Badmos, said that the Police would leave no stone unturned in getting rid of criminal elements within the state, urging parents through monitor the activities of their wards.
The suspects have been transferred toward the Lagos State Task force on Environment for prosecution.
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