Alleged leader of a robery gang says she is a UNILAG LAW graduate

Chioma Ezekwesiri: UNILAG Law Graduate? Led A
Robbery Gang?
Female UNILAG Law School Graduate Arrested For
Armed Robbery In Lagos
A seven-man robbery gang led by a woman,
Chioma Ezekwesiri, has been smashed by the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Lagos,
southwest Nigeria. The robbery suspects were
arrested while attempting to rob Bolatito Hotel, Kola
Bus Stop, Ijaiye, Lagos. In chat with P.M.NEWS,
Chioma said she arranged for the guns with
Raymond Chukwuka, a.k.a. Stubborn, they were to
use for the operation, which she claimed was a
land matter, whereas the police said that their
mission was allegedly to rob a male customer of
the hotel, who sells fertilizer, of about N8 million.
Other suspected members of the gang are: Amadi
Igwe, 41, Raymond Chukwuka, 24, Ignatius Okeredi,
27, Michael Madu, 52, and Okechukwu Jerome, 28,
and a yet-to-be identified member who is at large.
The alleged robbery operation, according to the
police, was foiled by some staff of the hotel, who
promptly made a distress call to SARS operatives.
The law enforcement agents were said to have
surrounded the hotel, and later searched all its
occupants. It was in the process that two locally
made guns and 12 live ammunition were recovered
from the robbery suspects. “We received a distress
call from a staff of Bolatito Hotel, who said they
suspected some people around the hotel. The
Special Anti-Robbery Squad moved in, surrounded
the place and demanded to search everybody.
It was in the process that two guns and 12 live
ammunition were recovered in Chioma’s car. This
led to the arrest of all her gang members,” a top
police source told P.M.NEWS. Following their arrest
and conclusion of investigation, the police took
them to court. Chioma, 35, who claimed to be a Law
graduate from the University of Lagos, was
remanded in prison custody along with six other
members of her gang by Magistrate A.O. Komolafe
of the Magistrates’ Court, Ikeja. They are facing a
three count charge of robbery, conspiracy and
unlawful possession of firearms.
Chioma claimed that she graduated from UNILAG in
1999, was called to the bar in 2000, and owns a
Non-Governmental Organisation, Youth of All
Nations Empowerment Association. But authorities
of the University of Lagos said she did graduate
from that institution. An officer of the school, who
craved anonymity, said Chioma cannot claim to be
an alumnus of the university if she cannot provide
her matriculation number. “The fact that she
claimed to have gone to Law School with the first
batch is not substantial enough. UNILAG usually
sends graduating students at a stretch, not in
batches. My position on the issue is that she did
not graduate from UNILAG, and so she was not our
student,” the officer said. Chioma’s claim of being
called to the Bar was also debunked by Barrister
Tunji Busari of Cognate Solicitors, who explained
that “we have a directory for all lawyers. We have
all their names with the year they were called to
bar, with their NBA registration numbers. When I
checked through her name in the directory, I could
not find her name in my record book.” When our
reporter called Mr. J.E. Joshua, the chairman of
Youth of All Nations Empowerment Association, he
denied that Chioma is the founder of the
association. “She just participated in a charity work
which the association embarked on in April, and
promised to participate fully in other projects of the
NGO. But we decided to stop working with her
when we realised that she wasn’t a straight forward
person. She is not working with us,” Joshua stated.
—Dedeigbo Ayodeji & Sulaimon Mojeed-Sunni
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/09/05/female-
graduate-leads-7-man-robbery-gang/
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