Friday, August 15, 2008

Ex-UME highest scorer in police net for alleged robbery

By Akin Oyedele, Ibadan

The Oyo State police command is now faced with the task of establishing the veracity of the claims by a 2002 highest scorer of the Universities Matriculation Examination, Adio Kolawole, that he is not an armed robber.


Kolawole



Kolawole and three members of his alleged gang were among the suspected criminals paraded by the Commissioner of Police at the state command, Mr. Bashiru Azeez, on Thursday in Ibadan.

The police boss alleged that Kolawole was the kingpin of the gang that had on many occasions tormented the University of Ibadan community, especially the female students.

In an interview with journalists, the alleged gang leader, however, insisted that he was not an armed robber, but a member of a cult group operating within the university campus.

Kolawole said he became a victim of circumstance after graduating from the UI, where he claimed to have studied Physiology from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, with matriculation number 110782.

According to the CP, Kolawole and members of his alleged gang were caught with one revolver, three live ammunition, one dagger, one knife and one black belt at a bush path where they had ordered their victims to report.

He said that the suspects had earlier robbed some female students of valuables, but not satisfied with their loot, they ordered their victims, who reside on Carpenter Street, Agbowo, to report at the bush path with more valuables.

Azeez said that the suspects were rounded up when they ran into an ambush laid by the police at the meeting point.

Kolawole said he relapsed into the world of crime due to unbearable pressure mounted on him by some cultists when he enrolled at the UI.

He said, “Because I led the UME exam of that year, they insisted that I should join them. I scored 320 when I sat for the UME in 2002.

“When the cultists knew about my brilliance, they started troubling me that I should join them. I reported to a policeman who, unknown to me, was the one bringing unsuspecting young ones into the Eiye Confraternity.

“It was not a thing I originally wanted to do. When I reported to him that a boy was troubling me, the policeman arrested him and then let him off the hook after 24 hours.

“I that reported the matter to him was held as a culprit and detained for three weeks. When I was eventually released, the cult leader boasted to me that nothing could happen to him and that if I did not join them, he would kill me.

“I was then forced to join the cult. But if I am pardoned, if they don’t kill me, I hope to join the police to help reduce criminality.”

Although he claimed that he was not an armed robber, he said that he only forcibly collected handsets from some female undergraduates, which he had since returned to them.

Kolawole added that the gun found in his possession belonged to a friend who kept it with him when they left a party.


http://odili.net/news/source/2008/aug/15/408.html

A shame!!!! Is he not supposed to be on scholarship? May be hardship led the genius to rob people. May God have mercy on him and may they tamper justice with mercy.

[size=14pt]More undergraduates on rampage for feeding money[/size].

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NDLEA arrests undergraduate, 2 others
A 19-year-old undergraduate and two other suspected drug traffickers have been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The suspects, who were found to have ingested narcotic drugs were nabbed at the screening point on their way to Amsterdam.

NDLEA Commander at the Airport, Alhaji Hamza Umar, who gave the names of the suspects as Aderinola Taiwo Olajide, 19, Francis Ayul, 33 and Michael Ojumo, 38, said the Agency will continue to stop drug traffickers because their activities were injurious to the nation.

“We will continue to stop drug barons and their cohorts from denting the good image of the country and from destroying innocent lives,” Hamza said.

Aderinola, who lives at Aguda, Lagos, told officers that he is a 200 level Economics undergraduate of University of Ilorin, but the school authority has not been contacted to confirm his claim.

He was caught on August 7, 2008, following the result of scanning which indicated that he ingested narcotics. After he was placed on observation, Aderinola excreted 93 wraps of substances that tested positive for cocaine, weighing 1.5 kilogramme.

According to Aderinola, who hails from Osun State, he requested the sum of N25,000 from a friend who asked him to carry the drugs and earn much money for himself.

He said, “it has not been easy financing my studies, the help I requested for has landed me in trouble, this is my first time, I did not even negotiate with the person that gave me the drugs. I only asked him for N25,000 and he introduced me into drugs.” The suspect hails from Osun State.

The second suspect, Francis Ayul, was caught on August 4, 2008, for ingesting 87 wraps of substances that proved to be cocaine, weighing 1.450 kilogrammes.

Francis, a school certificate holder, works in Spain as a labourer. He also said he indulged in the illicit act because he needed money to buy ticket back to Spain after visiting his family members in Nigeria. Francis hails from Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Michael Ojumo was also arrested on Monday August 11, 2008, for ingesting 90 wraps of substances that tested positive for cocaine, weighing 1.40 kilogrammes. He lives in Holland with his wife and three kids and works as a fork lift driver.

He said he needed money to take care of his mother who is suffering from breast cancer. “Please I did it because my mother is having breast cancer, don’t tell my mother that I was caught with drugs; if she knows, she will die,” he pleaded.

The suspects will soon be charged to court.

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/aug/15/205.html

Be it poverty, corruption in the police force, love for criminality or intimiation from cultists; he should face the full wrath of the law. After all, he had enough time to quit.

Be it poverty, corruption in the police force, love for criminality or intimiation from cultists; he should face the full wrath of the law. After all, he had enough time to quit.

You can't judge him like that because you don't know what's going on with his life. It's kind of rare to see a genius like this do a thing like this, besides, he's pleading not guilty.

DeepZone:

You can't judge him like that because you don't know what's going on with his life.

Sorry to judge the chap madam.
However, i sense a high degree of hypocrisy here; cos you constantly attack the likes of IBB, OBJ, MEND and the bank robbers and you never thought that things could have been going on in their lives too.

DeepZone:

It's kind of rare to see a genius like this do a thing like this.

Believe me, IBB is a rare genius too.

besides, he's pleading not guilty

Check out this. . . .

he said that he only forcibly collected handsets from some female undergraduates, which he had since returned to them.

Kolawole added that the gun found in his possession belonged to a friend who kept it with him when they left a party.

The guy should just face the music if found guilty.

If hes found guilty,he should dance to the music jare.

Sorry to judge the chap madam.
However, i sense a high degree of hypocrisy here; because you constantly attack the likes of IBB, OBJ, MEND and the bank robbers and you never thought that things could have been going on in their lives too.

Whatever!!!!



Na you I wan suffer for Nairaland,

ewoooo!

this one na mad stuffz ooo!

efiko turned robber or robber turn exam malpractiser!

the guy is a graduate. police is saying he is an armed robber and he is saying no am a cultist.
if i be the judge, i will base judgement on his words. since he is a cultist, found with gun, accepted to have robbed people, i will first of all, give him the punishment of a cultist, then illegal possession of fire arms and then armed robbery.
in this case, he will win the case against the claims of the police. who knows how many lives the briliant jamb man wasted in the name of cultism. who knows how many families he put into permanent agaony for the lost of their young ones.
our prayers will be for him to repent before going home so that he will not face the wrath of God.
mr.jamb, be not surprise because it is written that those who live by sword die by sword and that is the word of God and on that note, if the police english language does not change things, please accept my regards and rest in cultist peace