Please tell my wife and children that I am a victim of circumstances. It is better to be poor than to be arrested for armed robbery. “If I regain my freedom, I will never engage in robbery again. Once they had information that a vehicle was conveying traders who were going to buy goods, they would wait for the vehicle at a certain point on the highway. They were said to have confessed that they operated on the highways in Abuja, Ile-Ife, Osogbo, Lagos and Ibadan. Their gang’s mode of operation, according to the police source, was to go to the highways in a car and use fake police identity cards to stop any vehicle they intended to rob. He was said to have claimed that he left Johnson and Johnson Company because of poor salary and desire to get rich quick. He was also said to have claimed that he once functioned as a police spy attached to Johnson and Johnson Company in Ajao Estate, Lagos. He was said to have paraded himself as a police constable with a fake police identity card and force number 7425.
A police source said that Charly, who is now cooling his heels in the cell of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command, recruited the other members of the gang.
