My anger is people don’t travel with enough cash, robbery suspect laments

A 28-year-old carpenter has been arrested
for robbing travelers of their valuables and
cash along Markudi- Enugu express way
with a wooden gun.
The carpenter who identified himself as
Uchenna Otingwu, said he hailed from
Achara-Ohodo in Igbo Etiti Local
Government Area, Enugu State. He also
disclosed that he was in company of two
others he identified as Dada Ugwuisi and
Onowu Agbo, both from the same Ohodo
community.
The suspect told Crime Guard that three of
them have been engaged in high- way
robbery for quite sometime, but regretted
that people do not travel with enough cash
as they got about N1000 in their first
attempt and N5000 plus in second attempt
before luck ran out of them in their third
attempt as the Nsukka military patrol team
intercepted them  while they were flashing
torch lights to unsuspecting vehicles.
The
suspect said that two of his colleagues fled
as soon as they noticed the military men
while he was caught with the fabricated
wooden gun, explaining that the fleeing
Onowu Agbo is a professional casket maker
while Dada Ugwuisi is a driver.
“I went into highway robbery business
because I was not meeting up financially to
take care of my needs together with my
aged mother. I dropped out of Ohodo
Community Secondary School in JS II when
my father died and there was no money to
continue with my studies. My poor condition
took me to robbery together with the other
two now at large. We used the wooden gun
because we had not made enough money to
procure dangerous weapon,” he stated.
Confirming the arrest of the suspect, a
senior police officer at Nsukka told Crime
Guard that the military patrol team
intercepted the robbers while in operation at
Ohodo off Makurdi-Enugu express way. He
said that during interrogation, the suspect
confided in detectives that his claim of
being a carpenter is false because he has a
big provision shop at Ohodo along the
express road.  Meanwhile, the suspect has
been transferred to the Special Ant-robbery
Squad,SARS,Enugu for further investigation.