I stole Pasuma’s Range Rover Sport and sold it for N950,000 – Robber

Kasali Adegoke, the leader of the armed robbery gang
that robbed popular fuji musician, Wasiu Alabi aka
Pasuma, of his 2006 Range Rover Sport, says he sold
the vehicle for N950,000.
A search on the Internet by our correspondent,
however, suggested that used version of the vehicle sells
for N3.5m, while a new one costs between N8m and
N9m.
The 32-year-old, who is currently in detention at the
Special Anti Robbery Squad, Ogun State, said he sold
the car to a receiver at Cotonou.
He said, "I have a receiver at Cotonou who usually calls
to place orders for any type of vehicle that he wants.
Before we stole Pasuma's car, my buyer had already
told me that he wanted a Range Rover Sport. We were
just on the lookout for possible victims when we
noticed Pasuma's car."
Although based in Ogun State, Adegoke said he usually
comes to Lagos to steal choice vehicles.
On the night Pasuma was robbed, Adegoke said he was
merely roaming the Ahamddiya area of Lagos along
with some members of his gang when the musician was
sighted.
NE had earlier reported that a nine-man gang attacked
the fuji artiste around 9pm, while he was on his way to
a show few months ago.
Pasuma, who was dispossessed of other valuables in
addition to his car, was said to have hidden his face
from the robbers while the ordeal lasted. He was
dumped in a bush near Ota, Ogun State after being
stripped down to his underwear.
Pasuma and his Range Rover SUV
Adegoke said, "While he was with us, we had no idea
that he was Pasuma. We did not recognise him. It was
the next day that we realised that it was Pasuma car we
snatched the previous night when the news was all over
town.
"By that time, the car was already in Cotonou. We
drove it that same night to a border town in Ogun State
where one of the receiver's boys was waiting to drive it
back to Cotonu. We were paid N950,000."
Despite a deformed left hand, Adegoke confessed to
having killed over seven policemen during his six-year
career as a robber.
The police added that his eight man gang had killed
over 20 people.
"I was badly burned as a baby; I was just 13 days old
when someone threw a burning material through the
window on my bed. By the time I was rescued, the left
side of my face and my left hand were badly burned.
"Despite the handicap, I was able to master the art of
shooting with an assault rifle. I would rest the gun on
the ground while I loaded it and would support it with
my deformed hand while I shot," he said.
The Ogun State Commissioner of Police Mr.
IKemefuna Okoye, had last Monday, paraded Adegoke
along with three other suspects in Abeokuta.
Led by the SARS Officer-in-Charge, Mohammed
Tijani, Adegoke was reportedly arrested in the Obele
area, a border town between Nigeria and Benin
Republic. He was said to have been critically injured in
a shoot out with the police.
Adegoke reportedly led the SARS team to arrest other
members of his gang at their hideout in the Iju-Ishaga
area of Lagos State.
Okoye had said that the gang members had confessed to
killing the former South West Coordinator and Ogun
State Commander of the Vehicle Inspection Officer,
Mr. Yomi Bamgbose, in 2011, as well as the killing of
five policemen attached to the Quick Response Squad at
the Ijemo Agbadu and Mowe/Ibafo areas one year ago.
The gang was also said to have allegedly killed about
11 policemen in Kwara and Lagos states and were
responsible for the death of five policemen in the
Imeko area of Ogun State, in a bullion van attack in
September 2011.
They were also said to be responsible for the killing of
four members of the Ogun State Vigilance Service and
three filling station attendants in Ifo last June.
(NIGERIANEYE)