Suspected goat thieves have disclosed how they lured goats with white beans before stealing them.
The suspects, who were identified as Adeyemi, Oladimeji, Ayodele, Kunle and Mohammed, were arrested after they stole three goats at Sango area of Ogun State.
The leader of the 5-man-syndicate, Ayodele, 32, revealed that goats found white beans irresistible, which aided his group to steal about 20 goats per operation.
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The syndicate, which specialized in stealing goats across remote towns and villages in Lagos and other South-West states, was busted by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT.
They were arrested when IRT operatives, led by ACP Abba Kyari, received intelligence reports on the syndicate’s activities and swooped on the members and recovered the gang’s operational locally-made pistol and three goats in possessions.
When interviewed by newsmen, Ayodele, a secondary school dropout, noted that members of his gang had stolen goats from Oshogbo, Oyo Town and Ilorin.
He said: “whenever we attack Oshogbo, we use to steal between 19 and 20 goats in an operation. We usually lure the goats with white beans, which we would pour on the ground. The goats like eating white beans.
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“After stealing them, we will seal up their mouths with tapes so that their bleating will not be heard by the villagers. On several occasions, we have had encounters with vigilante men and they use to shoot at us in some process.
“We also have a locally-made gun which we use to scare the vigilante men on our way. Our last operation was Manoba area of Oshogbo, where we stole 19 goats. But we had an encounter with some vigilante men and there was a shootout. We managed to escape back to Lagos State.
“We sold the goats to our buyer, known as Kazeem, who normally pays N7,000 for each goat and he resells the goats to people who sell Assun.”
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Meanwhile, another suspect, Oladimeji, said he and members of his gang had stolen goats from places like Ojodu, Ibafo, Agbado Sango in Lagos and Ogun States. He disclosed that his gang moved by 5 a.m. while the goats are looking for food on the roadside.
He added: “We used to steal the goats early in the morning, while we patrol these areas and we normally give them white beans to lure such goats and fall prey.
“When we steal them we will take them to one of our buyers known as Iyabisola”
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