A 21-year-old armed robbery suspect, Rasheed Sulaimon, has told his police interrogators that he went into crime to prove a point to neighbours who were always calling him a thief in Ajegunle, Lagos, when he was growing up.
The police said they apprehended Sulaimon and another suspect, Johnson Frank, when the two men allegedly attacked residents of the Area, Aiyetoro, Lagos, on June 28, 2020.
The suspect, according to the police, said the negative reference to him as a thief by the neighbours kept hunting him throughout his youthful days.
“He said he vowed to take his pound of flesh from the neighbours when he grows up. So he deliberately went into crime. He said that he robbed one of the women who called him a thief then but was caught and handed over to the police. He said he met 23-year-old Johnson while in police cell,” the police said. (DailyTrust)