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EARLY MORNING ATM WITHDRAWALS RISKY!

A young armed robbery suspect 25, has told operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command how his gang robbed about 35 Automated Teller Machine users early mornings in Alaba Rago area of Lagos,  the police said.
Gbenga Babatunde, who was arrested after a failed bid to rob a lady who withdrew an unspecified amount of money around 5:48 a.m. at an ATM point in Alaba Rago Market, was chased by the operatives patrolling the area, and they recovered a ‘cut-to-size’ locally made short gun with two live cartridges from him, the police said.



The police said the suspect had an accomplice caled Samson Baba Ramadan, 28, who managed to escape after the botched operation.
“We have robbed about 35 people together. We would have gotten to the ATM point by 4:00 a.m. We would hide inside the shop that is not open beside the ATM point.”
The suspect said as soon as a potential victim withdraws money, they would accost him or her, collect the money and escape.
“The last money we collected was N40, 000. Yesterday, we collected N12, 500,” he said.
“This morning, we wanted to collect money from a lady. That lady ran away. We thought she had gone, not knowing that she went to inform RRS(Rapid Response Squad). This was around 5:00 a.m. They pursued us and arrested me but my partner escaped.
“I don’t go home. I sleep in Osankwa Hotel, Alaba Rago. It is only whenever I don’t have money that I go home. I have no wife and no child.”
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So now, how do we make our ATM withdrawals safer?...

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