A 27-year-old ex-convict, Adeniyi Ajayi has urged the police to kill him instead of sending him back to prison where he could become further hardened.
Ajayi was recently arrested for armed robbery and rape of different women.
The suspect was arrested by operatives of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command, in a hotel at Ijora 7-up area of the state.
He disclosed on Wednesday that during many of his operations, he raped women and maids in the presence of their husbands and bosses, as punishment for refusing to give him money.
Ajayi, who runs a one-man gang, said he has operated in places like Sabo, Ijora Badia and Lagos Island.
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The suspect said he usually broke into people’s homes, and threatened to kill them if they did not cooperate with him while lying to them that his non-existent gang members had surrounded the building.
According to Vanguard, some of Ajayi’s victims stormed the SARS office to confirm that he raped them.
Two of the victims who work in an office in Sabo said he raped them before their male colleagues in broad daylight on June 16, 2020.
He was said to have also stolen their phones, two laptops and ATM cards.
Ajayi was said to have been traced to his hideout through one of the stolen phones.
The suspect said, “I have been operating alone since January 2019, with just torchlight. During the operation, I would be giving orders to my imaginary gang members, on where to position themselves, just to give the impression that I was not alone.
“I raped women whose husbands refused to give me money, just to punish them. I also raped housemaids. I used the money realized to lodge in hotels.
“The only solution to this act is for the Police to waste my life because if they take me to prison, I will come back hardened and I don’t want to keep disturbing Nigerians.
“The first time I was arrested and sent to prison for stealing someone’s property, inmates made jest of me for coming to prison over a minor case. They said I should join their gangs when I leave there. That Is why I said the Police should waste my life because I know I won’t return from prison as a transformed person.”
The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, said the suspect would be charged to court.