Stunning confessions as police nab musician, others linked to robberies on Otedola Bridge
An intelligence-driven operation led by the Divisional Police Officer, Alausa Division, CSP Tokunbo Abaniwonda, has led to the arrest of a musician, Toochukwu Ucheagwu, aka Thuglife, who claimed to have robbed over 100 persons of their valuables on Otedola Bridge, Lagos State.
The police also arrested Ucheagwu’s gang members, an ex-dispatch rider, Richard Etim, and one Chidera Christopher.
The suspects, who operated with dangerous weapons including cutlasses and bottles, usually targeted unsuspecting passengers waiting to board vehicles around the bridge and passersby plying the bridge to navigate their destinations in the state.
The leader of the gang, Ucheagwu, said after dispossessing their victims of their money, mobile phones, among other valuables, they usually proceeded to the Computer Village in Ikeja, to sell the phones at cheap prices to customers.
The 29-year-old said, “I am a musician; my stage name is Thuglife. We have robbed over 100 persons on the Otedola Bridge. We usually…
