True love!! Man attacks robbers for stealing his girlfriend phone

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Edgal
Imohimi, has narrated how a suspected armed
robber, Michael David, was arrested by
operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad,
Lagos State, after he robbed a lady, identified
simply as Kate, of her phone.

According to the Police boss, 22-year-old David
and two other members of his gang, while
armed with a locally-made double-barreled
pistol, attacked Kate and her boyfriend, one
Desmond, on Close 26, Satellite Town, Ijegun,
around 10pm.
They were said to have taken Kate’s mobile
phone and threatened to shoot the couple dead
if they resisted.
The gang reportedly mounted a waiting
motorcycle and was about speeding off when
Desmond summoned courage and attacked the
men.
He succeeded in pulling down David, as his
girlfriend called for help.
Attempts by the suspect to shoot the victim
failed, as the gun reportedly jammed. David was
reportedly mobbed by residents, who handed
him over to the police.
Imohimi said: “On August 13, 2017, at about
10pm, one Demond and Kate, both residents of
Satellite Town, Ijegun, Lagos, were on their way
home when they were attacked at Close 26,
Satellite Town, by three armed robbers with one
locally-made double-barrelled pistol.
“The suspects ordered them to surrender their
phones or get shot. They dispossessed them of
a mobile phone, valued at N39,000, and jumped
on their standby motorcycle.
“But the man summoned courage and dragged
one of them, Michael David, down from the
motorcycle and with the help of passersby, the
suspect was arrested and his gun taken away
from him. The two other robbers escaped with
the stolen property,” he narrated while parading
David among seven other suspected robbers at
the Police Officers’Mess, Ikeja, yesterday
The suspect, who claimed to be a tiler and an
indigene of Imo state, said he was not the owner
of the gun, adding that it belonged to his friend,
one Ahmed.
David said his gang had only approached the girl
to collect her phone, adding that he was not an
armed robber.
He said: “We were coming from a friend’s party
around the Waterside area on that day when we
sighted the girl passing with her boyfriend. We
went to meet her to collect her phone and she
suddenly raised the alarm. My friends ran away,
but I was caught.
“I was not caught with the gun. Two to three
hours after the incident, some OPC members
brought the gun and said it belonged to me. I
am not an armed robber and we didn’t attack the
girl; we only collected her phone.”
When, however, the Investigating Police Officer
challenged him on his denial of the gun, he
owned up.
The policeman explained that the suspect had
attempted to shoot Desmond and his girlfriend
dead when the gun jammed.
“He made an attempt to shoot at them, but the
gun disappointed him. He was the one holding
the gun,” he said.