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Godwin Emmanuel, a 23-year-old armed robbery suspect, has confessed to stealing a police officer’s phone while being transported to the Osun State Police Command.
Emmanuel was apprehended alongside two other individuals, 28-year-old Olajide Kareem and 33-year-old Mike Emmanuel, who are accused of robbing motorists and sexually assaulting a 65-year-old woman on the Ilesa-Osu Expressway in Osun State.
The elderly woman was attacked while she was en route to the hospital with her husband.
While parading the suspects on Friday, the Spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, explained, “The three suspects rob motorists and passengers of their belongings.
“In one such incident, a bus driver was shot in his leg but was swiftly taken to the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in Ile-Ife for medical attention.”
According to Opalola, Olajide was arrested in the bush and admitted to being part of a five-man gang of armed robbers who had travelled from the Ikorodu area in Lagos to carry out their crimes in Osun State.
The other two suspects were subsequently arrested.
Speaking to the press, Godwin Emmanuel stated, “I was arrested for armed robbery. When I was being transported to the Police Command in Osogbo, inside the police patrol van that I was conveyed, I stole a phone. I don’t know that it is a police phone. I beg to make una no vex.
“I told the police not to be angry with me. I don’t know when I did that. I took the phone into the police cell without them knowing. I removed the SIM card. I want to use the phone to call my people because they don’t know I have been arrested for armed robbery.
“I have been here for about 2 months. They later came to search me in the cell where I was and discovered the phone on me. Please tell them to forgive me. I won’t do it again.”
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