The brother of Seun
Egbegbe and two others have been arrested by the police in Lagos State for
aiding the Nollywood Producer as he robbed big phone shops.
Those arrested were two
men simply identified as Kazeem and Muyideen and Lekan Yusuf, said to be
Egbegbe’s brother.
According to the Lagos
State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspects, Yusuf,
Kazeem and Muyideen usually stay in the car while Egbegbe goes into the phone
shops to get the goods.
Owoseni said as soon as
Egbegbe emerges, they drive away in the get away car.
He said they were also
part of the plan to rob Bureau De Change operators, which eventually backfired
and led to the latest of the uncovered stealing exploits of Egbegbe.
Owoseni said the trio were
arrested based on a petition by one Kemi Johnson, who claimed she was robbed by
the gang in November 2016.
Owoseni, who paraded the
suspects, said they were in the habit of going to big mobile phones shop to
steal.
He said: “The gang always targets big mobile phone dealers.
“While Seun, the ring leader, will approach the shop, the rest will be in the vehicle so that when Seun is in possession of the phone, they drive off.”
He said: “The gang always targets big mobile phone dealers.
“While Seun, the ring leader, will approach the shop, the rest will be in the vehicle so that when Seun is in possession of the phone, they drive off.”
But the suspects denied
ever backing Egbegbe in his operations.
They said Seun implicated
them because he was angry they did not visit him in detention.
Yusuf, Seun’s elder
brother, they do not even talk, adding that he received a text message from him
that he will deal with him for abandoning him at the police station.
He said: “On the day Seun
was arrested at Ikeja, it was my boss that told me that he saw the story on
Facebook and went to Area F the see him.
“But after then, he was
charged to court and I didn’t go to see him, only for me to receive an SMS from
him saying that he heard I was partying while he was languishing in prison and
that he will use his power to deal with me.
“I forwarded the message
to our mother.
“Two days later, police
came to my house and took me to the station, showing me a petition written by
one Kemi Johnson on November 22, 2016 that Seun and his gang came to her shop
to steal phone and accessories worth N10 million, and that only Seun was
arrested and later released without her consent and other members of the gang
were never arrested.
“I never knew anything
about the theft and the purported petition is just concocted to implicate me in
a crime I know nothing about by my brother.
“He sent the same
threatening message to his PA and promised that we will come and meet him where
he is.
“If I am part of his gang,
will I go to the police station the day he was arrested to see him?”
Muyideen said he was
arrested at the gate of Ikoyi Prisons after going to visit Seun.
He said: “I went to Ikoyi
Prisons to visit Seun and on my way out, I saw his girlfriend and I even wanted
to join their car, but she told me no more space.
“Then suddenly I just saw
police vehicle that stopped in front of me and I was asked to get in.
“I was shown a petition
that I was part of a gang that robbed her shop late last year.
“Seun is my friend and I
know him as a movie producer and music promoter.
“Even the day he was
arrested at Gbagada for trying to dupe a Bureau de Change operator, I was in
the car that took him to Gbagada because he told me he wanted me to accompany
him to South African embassy.
“He came down along the
way and we waited for him.
“Few minutes later, we saw
him in company of a police patrol vehicle and a mallam.
“They were taken to Ogudu
Police Station.
“The four of us remaining
in the car (Lekan, Muyideen and AY) followed them to the station and that’s
where the police told us their offence.
“I was not involved in any
way with it.
“Seun just wants to
implicate me in an offence I know nothing about.
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