If Sunday Ayogu and Kenneth Kingsley had known that their robbery operation could be botched, perhaps they would have experienced a rethink. Nevertheless they didn't and now they're cooling their heels in police custody. How made it happen happen?
Residents of Igboeze in Igbo Eze North Local Government Section of Enugu State were recently raised from their deep sleep by shouts of ‘Nyere m aka, Oye oshi'(Help! thief) from one of its residents.
The voice later turned out to be that of a filling station manager. On that fateful Wednesday, June 5, 2013, two suspected robbers stormed his residence and demanded for several he had. The suspects had scaled the fence of the home and forcefully gained entry into the main sitting room downstairs before they made their method to his bedroom where he was reportedly sleeping along with his wife and children.
Upon locating their prime target, the 2 suspected robbers, identified as Sunday Ayogu and Kenneth Kingsley, didn't waste time: they reportedly demanded for all the money in the whole building at gun point.
Not wanting to tempt the robbers, the man reportedly went to his wardrobe and handed over N250, 000 to them. The robbers were not through with their mission, though. After the man had reportedly handed over the total amount for them, the 2 robbers stilled demanded for some personal aftereffects of the man and his wife, that they got. Once they certainly were satisfied with their loot, the robbers headed for the rooms downstairs and this gave the victim chance to improve the alarm and cry for help.
As fate might have it, a vigilance group was some metres far from the house. The vigilance group then reportedly communicated to their colleagues in other places for reinforcement.
While the robbers rushed back upstairs apparently in a reaction to the alarm raised by the house owner, the vigilance team outside already surrounded the whole building.
They thus started initially to communicate for them to surrender themselves as they'd nowhere to go again. Ultimately, the vigilance group, with about 24 members, successfully talked the robbers into giving themselves up. Recovered from the suspects were five suspected stolen telephone handsets, one long machete, a long cut to size locally made gun and the amount of N197, 000.
During interrogation by the vigilance group, Ayogu claimed that their mission wasn't to harm the victims but to look for what they would eat. “We felt when we stumbled on the house, we'd manage to see what will sustain us for some time.
But we never knew it'd turn out this way,” Ayogu was quoted as saying. Kingsley on his part claimed Ayogu dragged him into robbery and that he never told him where they certainly were going that night.
Kingsley, who claimed he was students of a tertiary institution in the state, later confessed that he was driven into robbery by his resolve to boost money for his education. Person in the vigilance group, Mazi Eze, said that town had been thrown into confusion within the last two months by nefarious activities of robbers.
“We adult members of the community had to take our personal and families'destinies into our hands when men of the underworld suddenly turned their attention to the area. Had we not have been some alertness on our part these two young boys might have carried out the crime and vanished into thin air,” he said. Ebere Amaraizu, Enugu State Police Command spokesman, in a chat, said that investigation to the crimes is going on but added that the 2 suspects could be made to manage the total wrath of what the law states at the conclusion of it.
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