At the headquarters of the
Special Armed Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, onlookers
and police gathered to watch a reality incident which seemed to turn into drama.
A suspected armed robber, Fuwad
Azeez, arrested by the police, prepared protective charms for members of a gang
against bullets and knives, vehemently refused to be used as a guinea pig to
test the efficacy of the charms.
Azeez, son of a herbalist,
was arrested on April 19, 2016 by policemen attached to Denton Divisional
Police for carrying arms in public.
His arrest came after the
leader of the gang, Kareem Idris alias Aloma, led his team members, on a
successful robbery operation at Moonshine Hotel, Obalende on April 8, 2016,
where they carted away valuables and money from both workers and lodgers.
Following a tip-off, the
police stormed the hotel and caught seven of them while three others escaped.
In the course of interrogation, at the SARS office, Kareem Idris allegedly
recounted how members of the gang met on a football field with Azeez. They told
him to prepare protection charms for each member of the gang. Fuwad, 22, a
native of Iseyin, Oyo State, was said to have learnt the art of black magic
from his father.
He promised to do a good
job if they would allow him join the gang. Having secured their approval Fuwad
made charms for protection for every one of them against cutlasses, bullets,
bottles and other dangerous weapons.
However, the drama played
out when Sunday Sun asked which member of the gang would like to test the
potency of the charm against a gunshot or a machete cut. All seven of them,
including Fuwad, who prepared the charm vehemently refused to be a guinea pig
for the purpose of testing the efficacy of the charm.
Kareem also said they had
been stealing items like phones, laptops and other valuables for a long time,
which they later sold.
Meanwhile, Ramon Sanusi,
who is a foot soldier of the Eiye Confraternity and an indigene of Ogun State
who said that he started stealing in 2012, revealed that through the money he
got from robbery operations, he had purchased four guns. As at the time of
their arrest, the gang members were caught with one locally made pistol, two
live cartridges and some of the charms made by the gang member.
However, investigations are
ongoing while efforts have been doubled to track down the other members of the
gang still at large.
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