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Ex Inmates Kills Uber Driver And Sells The Car For N350,000

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Ex inmates kills Uber driver, sells car for N350, 000 . (Photo credit: File photo)

Two ex-inmates identified as Simon Tyozemda and Lucky Friday have been reported to have killed an Uber driver in Lagos and sold his car. The killers were released some months ago from the Kirikiri Medium Prison.

Report from Punch as it that Simon and Friday became friends during their jail time. The suspect was alleged to have formed a two man robbery team after their release in December 2017 and January 2018 respectively, who had their focus in snatching of cars from Uber drivers.

They mostly carry out their unlaw act engaging Uber drivers to take them to certain locations and would then dispossess their victims of their cars on getting to an unresidensial area.

The suspects took another turn of operation on Wednesday, March 14 and met their rout when operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command patrolling the Lekki-Epe Expressway stopped the Uber Toyota Camry they had planned to snatch.

Two knives and Indian hemp were reportedly found under the carpet of the car after a search, which lead to their arrest. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, who paraded the suspects on Tuesday at the command headquarters in Ikeja, said during interrogation, Simon and Friday confessed to killing of Ovie and selling his car for N350,000.

He said, “Investigation revealed that the suspects had earlier snatched a Toyota Corolla Saloon car with the number plate, FST 663 EZ, belonging to another Uber driver along Badore Road at about 2am.

“They killed the driver and took his car away. The late driver’s case was reported at the Langbasa Police Station at the time.

“The command’s undercover operatives attached to the RRS have recovered the late driver’s car from one Mohammed Usman and John Thankgod, who bought it from the robbers for N350,000, but have paid N100,000. They were about to take the car to Jigawa State when they were arrested.

“Simon Tyozemda and Lucky Friday were in prison for two months.”

Tyozemda, an indigene of Benue State, said he had worked with different private security outfits for five years before he went into car snatching for which he was earlier remanded.

He said he was introduced to the crime by one Michael, adding that he was arrested during a botched operation in which Michael escaped.

He said, “I spent four months in prison. It is sad I’m being arrested again for the same offence. I met Lucky (Friday) in the Kirikiri Medium Prison. We became friends and when I was released, I gave him my brother’s telephone number so that he could reach me.

“When he was released, I promised him that I would assist him to adjust to normal life. Since then, we have been working together.

“Our first operation was when we killed the driver of the Toyota Corolla. I stabbed the man in the stomach twice and dropped him on the road in Badore around 2am.

We threw away the knives and bought new ones for the fresh operation during which we were arrested.”

The 27-year-old explained that he had asked the deceased driver to pick him and Friday up at Langbasa, Lekki, around 11pm that day and lied to him that they were going to Abraham Adesanya Estate.

Friday said he was tempted to join the robbery gang when he returned from prison and found out that his landlord in Ikorodu had thrown out his belongings.

He said, “I worked with a company as an engineer. Some items got missing and I was arrested and charged to court. While I was in prison, I noticed that relatives of Simon (Tyozemda) always visited him and brought food and provisions for him. He gave me part of the food.

When he was leaving the prison, he promised to facilitate my release and he actually did. When I got to my apartment in Ikorodu, I discovered that my landlord had thrown my property away. I contacted Simon and he promised to assist me. That was how he introduced me to robbery.