The dream of a 35-year-old man, Emeka Nwogu to reconcile with his old girlfriend, Ogochukwu Emmanuella, 25, last Valentine day took a new twist after the girl and her brother allegedly connived with some cultists, attacked and snatched about N15.5million from him. They also stole his valuables including three phones.
The story which looks like a script from Nollywood took place at Ago Palace Way in Lagos after the man and his lover girl spent Valentine day in one of the hotels at Ago Palace and decided to eat out the following day little knowing that the girl had another agenda against him with her younger brother and his gang of cultists.
Police sources said while they were in one of the new restaurants enjoying themselves, his girlfriend insisted that they must go back to the hotel for her to ease herself. The unsuspecting boyfriend obliged her but expressed concerns after they passed the bus top leading to their hotel but he girl told him not to worry. However, according to sources, as soon as they got down in another bus stop, some armed boys attacked and dragged them to a secluded place inside one of the estates where they beat and tortured the boy mercilessly with guns and axes. They disappeared with his phones after forcing the man to disclose the password of his Bit coin, Binance and Trust accounts and removed about $9.700.
It was learned that after the attack, the man and his girlfriend rushed to Ago Palace police station where they lodged a report. However, the story took a different dimension after the police got to the scene of the incident only for one of the security guards that witnessed the attack to whisper to them that one of the perpetrators was always seen with the man’s girlfriend who was busy shedding tears in their presence. Based on this startling revelation, the girl was arrested and taken to their station where she confessed that it was her younger brother and his friends that attacked them.
She reportedly told detectives that she was angry after seeing her boyfriend’s what sap chats with other girls and that was why she contracted her younger brother to organize the attack with his friends. Crime Guard learned that at this stage, the case was transferred to the Commissioner of Police Special Squad 1, where police succeeded in tracing her residence while her young brother had fled.
Sources said her father on hearing the development, promised to trace his son and return the stolen items only for him to return only the sum of N3m which he claimed his son told him was part of the N5m kept as her daughter’s share of the loot. It was gathered that when detectives intensified investigations, they arrested four other members of the gang who confessed that they are members of Aiye confraternity at Ago Palace Way. Those arrested includes: Ogbuka Tochukwu, 22, John Wisdom, 25, Odora Michael, 24, and Babatunde Ibrhaim, 20. Items recovered from them are; one locally made gun, four local cartridges, one battle axe belonging to Aiye confraternity and N7.5milliom cash which is proceeds of crime.
The victim told reporters that he was greatly traumatized after realizing that his girlfriend of four years masterminded the attack. “I passed Valentine night with her in a hotel and we enjoyed ourselves. The following day while we were in a lounge enjoying ourselves, she went out severally after her phone rang. I did not know she was planning to attack me with her brother and cultists and steal my hard-earned money and property. I commend the CP squad for doing a good job.”
Recall that it was the same squad that eliminated a notorious gang of kidnappers that were terrorizing Lagos and environs last year at the popular Ladipo market in Lagos.
