robbed popular fuji musician, Wasiu Alabi aka Pasuma, of his
2006 Range Rover Sport, says he sold the vehicle for
N950,000.
A search on the Internet by our correspondent, however,
suggested that used version of the vehicle sells for N3.5m,
while a new one costs between N8m and N9m.
The 32-year-old, who is currently in detention at the Special
Anti Robbery Squad, Ogun State, said he sold the car to a
receiver at Cotonou.
He said, "I have a receiver at Cotonou who usually calls to
place orders for any type of vehicle that he wants. Before we
stole Pasuma's car, my buyer had already told me that he
wanted a Range Rover Sport. We were just on the lookout for
possible victims when we noticed Pasuma's car."
Although based in Ogun State, Adegoke said he usually
comes to Lagos to steal choice vehicles.
On the night Pasuma was robbed, Adegoke said he was
merely roaming the Ahamddiya area of Lagos along with
some members of his gang when the musician was sighted.
NE had earlier reported that a nine-man gang attacked the fuji
artiste around 9pm, while he was on his way to a show few
months ago.
Pasuma, who was dispossessed of other valuables in addition
to his car, was said to have hidden his face from the robbers
while the ordeal lasted. He was dumped in a bush near Ota,
Ogun State after being stripped down to his underwear.
Pasuma and his Range Rover SUV
Adegoke said, "While he was with us, we had no idea that he
was Pasuma. We did not recognise him. It was the next day
that we realised that it was Pasuma car we snatched the
previous night when the news was all over town.
"By that time, the car was already in Cotonou. We drove it
that same night to a border town in Ogun State where one of
the receiver's boys was waiting to drive it back to Cotonu. We
were paid N950,000."
Despite a deformed left hand, Adegoke confessed to having
killed over seven policemen during his six-year career as a
robber.
The police added that his eight man gang had killed over 20
people.
"I was badly burned as a baby; I was just 13 days old when
someone threw a burning material through the window on my
bed. By the time I was rescued, the left side of my face and
my left hand were badly burned.
"Despite the handicap, I was able to master the art of shooting
with an assault rifle. I would rest the gun on the ground while
I loaded it and would support it with my deformed hand while
I shot," he said.
The Ogun State Commissioner of Police Mr. IKemefuna
Okoye, had last Monday, paraded Adegoke along with three
other suspects in Abeokuta.
Led by the SARS Officer-in-Charge, Mohammed Tijani,
Adegoke was reportedly arrested in the Obele area, a border
town between Nigeria and Benin Republic. He was said to
have been critically injured in a shoot out with the police.
Adegoke reportedly led the SARS team to arrest other
members of his gang at their hideout in the Iju-Ishaga area of
Lagos State.
Okoye had said that the gang members had confessed to
killing the former South West Coordinator and Ogun State
Commander of the Vehicle Inspection Officer, Mr. Yomi
Bamgbose, in 2011, as well as the killing of five policemen
attached to the Quick Response Squad at the Ijemo Agbadu
and Mowe/Ibafo areas one year ago.
The gang was also said to have allegedly killed about 11
policemen in Kwara and Lagos states and were responsible for
the death of five policemen in the Imeko area of Ogun State,
in a bullion van attack in September 2011.
They were also said to be responsible for the killing of four
members of the Ogun State Vigilance Service and three filling
station attendants in Ifo last June
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