We make up to N200m from one robbery operation in Abuja – Suspect

 

An eight man gang of armed robbers  terrorizing the Federal Capital  Territory Abuja, Kogi and Kano States, whose main informant was a middle-aged woman known as Hajia has been smashed by the police. Crime Guard gathered during the week, that the gang had links with Kogi State notorious political thug, Zakeria Yua Isiaka, who was arrested recently by operatives of the Inspector General of police Special Intelligence Team, IRT on the Okene-Akure Expressway.

The suspects who were identified as Isah Mohammed, Hajia Rekia Musa, Ismaila Abdulmumuni, Abu-Amidu Disu, Tenimu Musa, Boniface David, Aliu Isah and Danjuma Cyprian were said to have confessed during interrogations that they had carried out several robbery operations including an April 2015 operation in Abuja where over N200 million was stolen from some politicians.
Sources at the police force headquarters added that the suspects’ activities came to the limelight in 2016 when they raided the home of a serving comptroller of the Nigeria Immigration Service. It was further gathered that Hajia would go around town scouting for her victims whose information she would send to the robbers before they would strike.
When Crime Guard interacted with the suspects they narrated how they formed their gangs and how they carried out their operations.
I went for only one operation with my gang—Mohammed
25-year-old Isah Mohammed told Crime Guard after his arrest that he went for one operation with his gang but he provided all the information they needed. According to him; “I am Igbira by tribe from Kogi State but I stay in Buwari area of Abuja. I am a fashion designer and I have a shop at Bwari area. It was my bad friends I met in Abuja who led me into armed robbery. There was this guy Ismaila who was my customer who told me that some politicians used to bring huge amount of money to his office at Amadi plaza in Mabuchi area of Abuja which they would share.
He said he wished he had charms that would enable him rob them of the money. When I told one of my other customers, Dan, who I believe had charms he asked me to bring Ismaila and we all went to the place including some of Dan’s friends in a dark green Honda Accord car. Dan however argued that charms would not work but that we would need guns to rob the politicians of the money.
On the day the politicians came to share their money, Ismaila called to inform me that our target was there, I then informed Dan who went with his gang to rob them and later gave me N4.5m to share with Ismaila. But later when I learned that over N200m was robbed from the politicians, I felt cheated and complained to Dan who told me that one powerful man called Zakari from Kogi state but based in Abuja took the lion share.
He then took me Zakari’s house in Abuja where I told him that I was the informant who brought the job but I was not treated well. Zakari then asked me to be patient, that he was going to help me. He also told me that he was a political thug working with Abubakar Audu who promised to settle him with a lucrative contract if he won the governorship.
Dan also introduced me to one of Zakari’s boys, Bonni who was said to have formed his own gang. I gave Bonni information about a filling station in my area which he and his gang robbed and I was given N100,000 as my share of the loot. Last month, one of my friends called me and told me of a woman, simply known as Hajia who had information about a house in Kano where they keep a lot of foreign currencies.
All of us then went to the house but we could not do anything because of the presence of a large number of policemen. We also carried out another operation at Mike Yahman Street, Maraba area of Abuja which Hajia said was owned by a government official who had stolen a lot of money. Few days after that Maraba operation, one of our gang members was arrested and he led policemen to arrest the rest of us.
I was deceived into being an informant-— Hajia
I am Rekia Musa but popularly called Hajia. I am from Agba Local Government Area of Kogi State. I am divorced with two children. I am an HND graduate in Business Administration from Kogi State Polytechnic and I also obtained a Bsc in accounting from Kogi State University. I reside in Kano State after my divorce.
I became an informant to robbers in the last four months. One of my friends known as Isha approached me and said he knew some politicians who had stolen government money and hide it in their houses and if I could help him get a charm that would enable him appear and disappear into the politician’s house and steal the money unnoticed, he would reward me handsomely.
I traveled to my village in Kogi State and met a boy call Tenimu and told him about it and he told me that he would get the charm, but before I knew what was happening Tenimu gave out the information to his friends who were armed robbers and they lured me into taking them to the house in Kano State. But when we got there they saw heavy presence of policemen and they changed their mind and went away.
I got upset because I needed money and few days later, Isah got another information that an Immigration Officer based in Lagos had stolen government money and I contacted my gang and we went to the man’s house and robbed him. We didn’t find the amount of money Isah told us about the man had in his house after we searched it.”
I own the guns we used for the operations —Abu-Amidu Disu
I am 29-year-old from Iynigba in Dekina Local Government Area, I am into car wash, I am a graduate of Political Science from Kogi State University. I graduated in 2014, I served in Akwa Ibom State and I rounded up in October last year, after then, I started applying for jobs. With the little money I saved from the youth service I bought a Toyota Camry, brought it to Abuja and I started taxi business.
I was plying from Gubua to Berger area of Abuja. I was doing my taxi business peacefully until September 2016 when one of my friends known as Tenimu Musa called and told me that there was this Hajia who was married to a very rich man who has connection with some ex-governors and because of the TSA that the governors have taken all their money to her husband’s house but she wanted a charm that could make her enter into the house undetected.
I went to Lokoja to meet Tenimu and the Hajia and she also corroborated all what Tanimu told me. I then told Tenimu that I know he did not have the powers to appear or disappear, that if truly there was money in that house we may have to go in with guns. I then instructed Tenimu to contact one Babano who knew where I kept my rifles and pistols to bring the guns to me in Abuja.
They met me in Abuja and I also invited one of my friends known as Isah Mohammed who I met during the Kogi State Governorship elections. We both worked for the APC in that election. Six of us including Hajia proceeded to Kano and we went in my car and Babano’s cab. But when we got to the house we discovered Hajia did not know anything about that house and she had never been there before.
She told me that the security around the house would be small but when we got there, policemen were everywhere. When I made enquiry about the house I was told that the house belonged to a retired Inspector General of Police. I then told Hajia that I could not invade the house but she insisted I should go in. In anger, I left her behind and returned to Abuja. But few weeks later I was arrested by the police.