I’ve over 20 boys, girls who sell hemp, codeine – suspect

The Police in Lagos nabbed a 37-year-old armed robber, Lanre Olowojobi, alias Pumpy, in the Mushin area of the state at the weekend.

The police said Olowojobi’s gang members are responsible for many crimes including killings in the area.

The suspect was arrested at the weekend during a raid of some identified criminal hideouts in the Akala, Idi-Iro, and Fadeyi areas of the metropolis.

In his confessional statement to the police, Pumpy disclosed that he had raped not less than 30 women in the last three years, adding that most of his victims were those his gang members waylaid.

He explained that his accomplices would drag their unfortunate victims into the bush or abandoned structures where they took turns raping them.

Pumpy, who hails from Ipoti in Ekiti State, also said he had shot dead more than 10 persons in different fracases in the Akala area of Mushin, which is widely feared in Lagos as a gathering of undesirable elements and dark spot for criminal activities.

Olowojobi said, “I joined the boys in the street in 2008 but I founded my own gang in 2010. Initially, we were four members in the gang but we later increased to 10.

“Aside being contracted by land grabbers and members of the different transport unions during their frequent leadership tussles, we also recruit young boys and girls to sell drugs on the street.

“I have over 20 young boys and girls who sell Indian hemp, Codeine, Tramadol and other drugs to users in the area. These young boys and girls do this in return for food, shelter and protection. A good number of them ran away from their homes while some of them are destitute.

There was a time I butchered one guy like a goat simply because he assaulted my girlfriend. Before then, I had warned him to stay away from my girl but he refused.”