By Trace Reporter
A herdsman arrested
by men of the Oyo State police command for robbery, Amidu Umoru, to the
surprise of those present, said it was his destiny to rob despite being a
herdsman.
Amidu Umoru and Umoru
Sanda were accused of attacking Kehinde Rafiu along Igangan/Iganna road, via
Iwere Ile in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State, beating him with a shepherd club and
machete before robbing him of his motorcycle.
While parading the
suspects, Commissioner of Police in the state, Leye Oyebade, said the victim
later died in a hospital because of the fatality of his injury.
Umoru, 20, said his
accomplice, Sanda, first attacked the deceased with machete before he (Umoru)
used the club to beat him to a state of coma because he put up a fight with
them.
“Sanda cut the
motorcycle owner with his cutlass and I used the club to beat him. He was
seriously injured but not dead. I normally used the club to shepherd cattle.
After leaving him for dead, we took his motorcycle away to sell. We were later
arrested by members of the Odua Peoples’ Congress who handed us over to the
police.”
Asked for the motive
behind the robbery when he was already engaged as a herdsman, Umoru said he had
no clear understand of why he took to the crime and that it was his destiny to
rob.
Hear him: “I don’t know
why I did it. I cannot even ride a motorcycle. I am a herdsman and this is my
first time of being arrested or robbing people. Whatever Allah desires must
come to past. I think it is my destiny to rob.”
It will be recalled
that President Buhari has earlier directed the police to deal with any herdsman
caught in acts of criminality
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