My boyfriend made me leave prostitution for armed robbery - Suspect
Twenty-four-year-old Sherifat Bakare and four other members of her 
gang, were apprehended on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by the men of Ogun 
State SARS, who had been on their trail after receiving a tip-off about 
the gang’s plan.She told Punch,It all began a few weeks ago when another
 member of the gang, Bola Onasile, (also in SARS custody) had approached
 her boyfriend about the availability of N70m in a wealthy man’s house 
in Joju area of Sango, Ogun State.
I am from Idofian in Kwara State. My 
father is late but my mother lives in Ibadan. She has no idea I do this 
kind of job and she does not even know I am in police custody.I was 
living with a security guard in a house at Osborne in Ikoyi. The 
landlord of the house was out of the country. I was going from there to 
‘hustle’ in Lekki every night.Raji was a good helper to me. That was why
 I decided to leave prostitution when he begged me. When he introduced 
me to armed robbery, I asked him if there would be no problem and he 
assured me that there would be none. When we started dating, I did not 
know he was an armed robber though.”I was hustling before Raji, my 
boyfriend, told me to join his gang........
I have only gone on two operations 
with them. I don’t know him (Onasile) well. I only know that he was the 
one who brought the job.Raji gathered other members and they snatched a 
vehicle (a Nissan Quest) around Iwo Road, Ibadan. We decided that the 
vehicle would be used for the operation.The gang asked me to sit in the 
front of the vehicle so that when we were stopped by policemen on the 
way, being a woman in the front seat would make them unsuspicious. But 
during the operation, the police cornered us and Raji was shot dead."
36-year-old Onasile, who brought the N70m job, was evasive when our 
correspondent asked him how he knew about the money.He later said that 
an acquaintance of his, a man named Tunde, informed him about the money.
“Tunde is like a brother to me. He 
told me the man we were going to rob was his relation. He said the man 
had N70m at home. I told him I had no boys who could do the job. But he 
was always disturbing me about getting a gang together to do the 
operation.
“Few days later, I informed Raji 
about the operation and he told me he could get boys for the job. We 
planned to sell the vehicle we snatched after the operation but we did 
not know how police got to know about the operation. Tunde ran away when
 the police were after us.”
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