Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police
Command, have smashed a four-man robbery gang who carried out an
operation at the arrival hall of the Murtala Mohammed International
Airport (MMIA), Ikeja on October 30, last year.
In the process, they
carted away the sum of $1.5 million kept in a bagging store by Mrs Uche
Eziama, owner of Deravine Company. According to a police source, the
said money was kept in a bag and Mrs. Eziama intended to use it for a
business transaction that could not hold, following which she decided to
keep it in the bagging store. But to her utter shock, by the time she
went there to fetch it, it had vanished. She alerted the police and some
suspects were arrested. As the suspects were being screened, one of
them, Ifeanyi Francis, confessed to the crime. Continue...
The police later
recovered the sum of $224, 240 and two landed properties Ifeanyi said he
acquired with the money. Also recovered from him was a Pathfinder SUV
he allegedly purchased with part of the stolen money. He also confessed
that one of the gang’s members, Chibuzor Onuegbu, who worked at the MMIA
as a clearing and forwarding agent, was the one who told him to come to
Lagos for the job. He said the larger share of the money was with
Onuegbu, adding that Onuegbu confided in him that he would give the
money to his elder brother, Kalu, to keep for him.
