By Francis Ogbuagu
The police in Edo state on Sunday arrested a pregnant woman and two other men for alleged armed robbery
The pregnant woman, identified as Jumoke Akanbieme was alleged to have feigned being in labour along the Murtala Muhammad Way in Benin City, waiting for a would be helper.
Her other two accomplice: Osagiede Izevbokun and Godfrey Okonide. were said to had came out from their hiding place and forced a man with a Toyota car,who stopped to help her to drive to Upper Sokponba Roadof the state capital where they collected the car from him.
The suspected robbers were to dismantle the car and dispose it off, as spare parts when the police from Ugbekun Division reportedly swooped on them and arrested the woman and her accomplices.
The Edo State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor who confirmed the incident said “so many cars have been snatched by the syndicate in the same manner.”
Akanbieme said her man who is currently being hunted for by the police lured her into the crime.
