Ibrahim, a tricycle operator popularly known as Keke Napep, was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command at the weekend alongside other robbery suspects that have been terrorising the state.

Officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS Ikeja, arrested him after a tip off.

The 29-year-old suspect revealed during his confession that some of the arms used by robbers were given to them by politicians during campaigns.

The suspect told Vanguard that he used his tricycle to convey weapons for members of separate robbery gangs, who he said were also members of different confraternities.

According to him, “I use my keke Marwa to convey weapons for the gang.

“I am a political thug and not a robber. I work during elections only.

“Most of the guns were given to us by politicians.

“We get the guns from some honorables at Onike. They pay us at the end of the day, but some political thugs end up not taking the guns back to the politicians. Most of the thugs are cultists.

“One of them (cultists) Dagbe Ahmed, stays with me, bBut I never knew he is an armed robber.

“I was arrested because the police got to know that he stays with me.

“Dagbe and I work for different politicians. I do not fight or kill like them, I only operate with my keke after elections,” Ibrahim stated.

Confirming the arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, CP, Fatai Owoseni, said other members of the gang whose identities he gave as Oshanleke and Sodiq Kashi, were still at large.

While assuring that effort was in progress to arrest them, the CP listed items recovered from the suspect.

He said, “Recovered from him and five other suspected members of his gangs were some locally made pistols and live cartridges.

“Identities of suspected members of his gang are; Ramonu Sanusi, Rilawanu Ayinde , Sodiq Olaide and Kazeem Idris,” the CP added.