Ogona Anita
Nigeria-One Kelechi,a driver of a Minibus popularly known as Keke Bus without plate number who allegedly arranges with armed robbers to rob his passengers was apprehended by mob at Artillery junction Aba road, PortHarcourt in Rivers state at about at Artillery 11. PM on Sunday, 26th January, 2025.
We gathered that the suspect was apprehended after two ladies, he and his gang had earlier robbed,identified him when he (suspect) was about to buy petrol in a filling station along Aba road.
One of the female victims of Kelechi and his gang, Gloria Ephraim in an interview with our reporter said
“What happened is that, we entered motor(minibus) at Oyigbo Express, we were going to our friend’s place who is celebrating her birthday.
“The driver asked us where we are going to, we said we are going to market junction. He said is 700, we said we are with 500 naira ,he said we should enter.
“Then when we entered, he drove us and stopped at a place where there is no vehicle and put fuel. Then we were like the place you stop us and put fuel is not good.There was one lady at the front with a guy, she was going along, She stopped before the driver drove us front.
“This thing happened at oil mill flyover.The driver now stopped, four guys came out with Knife, they put knife under their nicka.When the four guys attacked us and asked for our phones, one of the passenger sitting at the window side jumped out, run and crossed to the another lane of the road. They did not succeed to rob him.
“They flogged my girlfriend with knife because she was close to the door and I was in the middle side in the bus. Although the knife touched me but not the way they did to my girlfriend.
“During the incident, one of the guys said I should give him my phone or he is going to kill us and nothing will happen. I threw my phone through the window they were beating my girlfriend with me. So my girlfriend had to give them her phone. I did not know that one of the guys saw when i threw my phone. The guy now collected it.
“The backside of the minibus there is no glass, is water-proof they used in covering it. After they collected our phones, as we were running, we heard the driver calling one of the guys name that he should keep his own share.That was when I told my girlfriend that the driver carried us and gave the people who robbed us.
“As we were running, we saw an Hausa man driving motorcycle who helped us and dropped us at Artillery”
Kelvin Nwachukwu, a Youth Activist who assisted in apprehending the driver of the ‘One Chance’ vehicle said
“I was at Artillery junction, some girls were complaining that they were robbed by ‘One Chance’ robbers .Unfortunately for the driver of the ‘One Chance” syndicate, he was turning at Artillery to buy fuel at a filling station as at when the girls were complaining to people.
” The girls quickly identified the driver. So I mobilized the people they were complaining to, to go and apprehend the driver.We went to the filling station, we saw some of the girls property inside the bus We carried the driver with the girls to Mini-Okoro Police station. His minibus is there. His name is Kelechi, He is from Anambra state.
” We made an entry at Mini-Okoro Police station .For now he is still at Mini-Okoro Police station”.
The Rivers State Police Command was yet to make official statement on the incident.
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