pickpockets and one – chance gangs operating in the state . The suspect, Kazeem Bamidele, 42, who is the Second Vice Chairman of the National Cumulation of Road and Convey Workers’ (NURTW), Ajegunle Unit, equipollently confessed to the RRS Astuteness Team that he has over 52 boys in Lagos State, who glom and sell “clean phones” to him perpetually. Kazeem, popularly kenned as Elewure in the gregarious circle, was apprehended when the RRS Perspicacity Team quizzed two glommed phones users in Kogi State in connection with abduction and larceny cases in Lagos State. The operatives had upon returning from a week-long investigation to Port Harcourt, Enugu and Kogi State, swung into actions by apprehending Elewure from his shop in Boundary Market, Ajegunle, after he was fingered to have been the seller of two Blackberry Z10 phones and a FELINE phone amassed from victims of larceny and abduction incidences in the metropolis.
Kazeem verbally expressed, “I have over 52 boys who sell clean glommed mobile phones to me. On the average, I receive 38 ‘clean’ phones in a week. I have been in the business for more than two years. Boundary Market in Ajegunle, where I have office and shop, is where they sell the phones. I ken they are purloined phones. Proximately every guy in Ajegunle is involved in this kind of runs. It is what they do to survive. “I was pushed into the business by family pressure. I have so many dependants, including two wives and seven children. My mother gave birth to 13 children for my father. Though both of them are no more, only three of us are left and I am the breadwinner of the family. “I commenced out in life as ‘elubo’, pepper and maize grinder. I ken that most of these phones were gotten from pick pocketing, one chance and larceny. My second wife has mounted so much pressure on me to quit the business long ago but the financial pressure was much.
” He revealed that “I buy Infinix Sultry 2 at N10,000 and sell N12,000; Blackberry Z30 at N20,000 and sell at N22,000; buy Infinix Sultry Note at N15,000 and sell at N17,000 and Samsung Galaxy X3 at N11,000 and sell at N14,000. I don’t buy iPhone because of its locking system.” Lagos Metro accumulated that as of the time of his apprehend, five purloined mobile phones were found on him. He is presently availing the police to pick up his boys from their hideouts, bus ceases and routes of operations. Two commercial buses “danfo” utilized for larceny and one chance operations are presently at RRS Headquarters in Alausa.
“Some of the phones traced to Elewure were that of high profile members of the society as well as celebrities,” a police source verbally expressed.
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