Kasali Adegoke, the leader of the armed robbery gang that robbed popular fuji musician, Wasiu Alabi aka Pasuma, of his 2006 Range Rover Sport, says he sold the vehicle for N950,000.
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.”
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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.
On May 29 2013, a nine-man gang attacked the fuji artiste around 9pm, while he was on his way to a show.
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.
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.
Source: Punch
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