Cab Robber Rapes Teenager, 3 Gang Members Arrested.

Men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS,
have arrested the leader of a four-man
robbery gang who raped a teenage
seamstress during their operation at Igando
in Alimosho area of Lagos State, southwest
Nigeria.
Three members of the gang of cab robbers
were also arrested at their hideout in Ijegun
near Ikotun also in Alimosho council area of
Lagos.
The gang leader who allegedly raped an 18-
year old seamstress (names withheld) was
identified as Rotimi Adeluola. He was said to
be a cab operator popularly known as
kabukabu.
A source said that Adeluola with
his suspected gang members terrorised
residents of Egbeda, Ikotun and its environs
before they were nabbed .
He was identified with a car he used to
operate as a cab which he diverted to their
hideout. Each time the suspect picks his
victims in the cab, he takes them to the
hideout where his gang members
dispossessed them of their valuables at gun
point.
The gang leader allegedly robbed the lady of
N57,000 after he had collected her UBA
Automated Teller Machine, ATM card.
At gun point, he also robbed Okoh
Ozeomena of N465,000.
When SARS operatives stormed the gang’s
hideout, eight suspects were initially
arrested. But during an identification
parade, the two victims identified Adeluola
as the person who robbed them on 30
January.
Narrating her ordeal, the raped
victim said she was on her way to her shop
when she boarded a cab to Ejigbo. But the
driver diverted the cab at Ronik junction and
headed towards the suspects’ hideout.
“When I tried to raise an alarm, the gang
leader showed me a gun and threatened to
shoot me. They told me to cooperate. It was
at their hideout they raped me. Later they
took me on okada (motorcycle) to my bank
to collect money.”
Adeluola, 42, a father of 4 resident at 40,
Ayo Oyekanmi Street, Ijegun, described
himself as a fraudster who engaged in 419-
related business and not a robber.
He claimed police arrested him while he was
inside his house on the allegation that he
raped and robbed the female victim and
another man.
Recalling his experience, Ozeomena said he
boarded the cab driven by Adeluola who,
along with some of his gang members
inside the car robbed him at gun point.
He said the incident was reported to the RRS
but the gang managed to escape.
Ozeomena, 23, a trader from Enugu State
said he returned from the East when the
police informed him they had arrested the
robbery suspects and he was able to
identify Adeluola and his gang members
who robbed him in the cab. According to
sources at SARS, the four robbery suspects,
including Joseph Okoro, Joshua Adeyemi, 76,
and Sylverster Orji will soon be arraigned in
court.