RRS Arrests Uber Driver’s Killers, Recovers Car

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a unit of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspected robbers for killing an Uber driver and stealing his Hyundai Elantra, car with the registration number EPE 676 EC.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the arrest of the suspects followed a directive from the new Lagos State Police boss to the Commander of the RRS, Olatunji Disu, that the culprits should be fished out and made to face the full wrath of the law .

The two suspects: Humble Peter Robert, 33, and Gideon Achibong, 36, were arrested on Monday February 4, 2019, at about noon in Aboki Estate, Lekki, Lagos, while removing the car parts for sale to a scrap metal dealer.
Investigations by the police revealed that Peter Robert, an ex–convict and a bus conductor, in company of three others now at large, had three days before his arrest conspired to hijack an Uber car and sell it off.
On the said day, the quartet of Emma, David, Dolapo and Peter Robert at about 11pm waved down the deceased, Sunday Obasi, in Lekki. They told him they were going to Ikate and he charged them N1,000.

But before getting to their destination, the suspects told the driver that they wanted to ease themselves. It was at that point that they descended on the driver. They killed him and pushed him off the car before driving the car to Beach Road, Lekki, where they hid it for two days while looking for a buyer.
According to Peter Robert, “I was sitting in front of the car with the driver. We seized the car and hit him with stones several times. He complained that he was sick. We pushed him beside the road and went away with the car, a wine coloured Hyundai Elantra.
At the Beach Road, Lekki, where we parked the car, we swapped the number plate with that of a Volkswagen Passat car (FKJ 708 CA) which was close by. We left it for two days hoping to contact a buyer for the car.”
He continued; “Emma, also an Uber driver, is our ring leader. He noticed that the driver was operating offline before deciding that we hijack the car from him. The following day when one of us visited where we hijacked the car. He noticed the guy’s corpse was already in police body bag.’
‘We contacted Archibong to assist us in disposing off the car. The buyers we invited indicated that they can only buy the car parts. It was in the process of dismantling the car that the RRS patrol vehicle spotted us and arrested two of us. Emma, Dolapo and David are on the run.”

Commenting on the development, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Mu’azu, stated that investigations were continuing on the case. He noted that the Command would leave no stone unturned towards ensuring that the fleeing suspects are made to face justice.