Seun Egbegbe’s brother, others arrested for aiding him to rob

The elder brother of alleged phone thief and bureau de change dupe Seun Egbegbe and two other alleged members of his gang have been arrested by the police in Lagos state for aiding the Nollywood movie producer as he robbed big phone shops.

 Those arrested were two men simply identified as Kazeem and Muyideen and Seun Egbegbe’s brother Lekan Yusuf. Ade'B learnt that how the gang operates was disclosed by the Lagos state commissioner of police, Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspects, Yusuf, Kazeem and Muyideen. He said they usually stay in the car while Egbegbe goes into the phone shops to get the goods. And as soon as Egbegbe emerges, they drive away in the getaway car. He said they were also part of the plan to rob Bureau De Change operators, which eventually backfired and led to the latest arrest and also uncovered the stealing exploits of Egbegbe. The police boss said the trio was arrested based on a petition by one Kemi Johnson, who claimed she was robbed by the gang in November 2016.

But the suspects denied ever being part of Egbegbe in his operations. They said Seun implicated them because he was angry they did not visit him in detention. Yusuf, Seun’s elder brother, claimed they are not on talking terms adding that he received a text message from him that he will deal with him for abandoning him at the police station. He said: “On the day Seun was arrested at Ikeja, it was my boss that told me that he saw the story on Facebook and went to Area F to see him. “But after then, he was charged to court and I didn’t go to see him, only for me to receive an SMS from him saying that he heard I was partying while he was languishing in prison and that he will use his power to deal with me. I forwarded the message to our mother. “Two days later, police came to my house and took me to the station, showing me a petition written by one Kemi Johnson on November 22, 2016 that Seun and his gang came to her shop to steal phone and accessories worth N10 million, and that only Seun was arrested and later released without her consent and other members of the gang were never arrested. “I never knew anything about the theft and the purported petition is just concocted to implicate me in a crime I know nothing about by my brother. He sent the same threatening message to his PA and promised that we will come and meet him where he is. If I am part of his gang, will I go to the police station the day he was arrested to see him?”