5 Men pretends as patient to rob hospital, 2 got arrested while 3 escaped

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Five suspected armed robbers, who disguised as patients, have attacked a private hospital in the Shibiri, Ajangbadi area of Lagos State, carting away valuables.
3 escaped while 2 (Babatunde Bamidele and Idowu Balogun)  were apprehended and taken to the Ajangbadi Police Division.
Lagos CP confirmed the incident, the name of the hospital robbed withheld
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it was learnt that: Bamidele and Balogun stayed at the hospital’s gates, while one Yusuf and Ahmed, said to be among those at large, entered the doctor’s office, feigning to be patients who needed medical attention.
according to source: It was learnt that the three, however, robbed the doctor of money and phones, which they passed to the duo at the gate. -- One Nigeria
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According to punch report: 32-year-old Bamidele, who hails from the Lagos Island, said it was Ahmed who invited him “for the job”, adding that he was given the doctor’s phones to keep during the operation.

He denied that he entered the hospital as a patient.

He said, “I do car battery charging and rewiring on the Lagos Island. My father is a chief on the Lagos Island area. There is a cut on my stomach. I sustained it when I fell off from a motorcycle three weeks ago. That was the cut the policemen saw and said I came to the hospital as a patient.

“It was a friend, Ahmed, who invited me for this job on Tuesday. I was at a drinking joint when he came and persuaded me to join them.

“Ahmed is a pickpocket, I will not lie. We don’t have any gun. He had asked me to wait at the hospital gate that evening. The other suspect and I were at the gate. We did not see the doctor who was robbed.

“When the policemen came, they whisked me and the man away in a van, but Ahmed and others escaped. I did not know whether they disguised as patients inside the doctor’s office or not. I was not given any money.”

The second suspect, 29-year-old Balogun, who hails from Ajase, Kwara State, said, “I did not know Tunde (Bamidele) before Tuesday. He and I were stationed at the hospital gate. It was Yusuf who invited me to come to the hospital to rob. What I usually do is ‘sit and fire’. That means, I steal money from people’s pockets inside commercial buses.

“They said they had a job to do and they took me along. That was the first time I would go to that hospital. I was going to run away when the police arrested me.”

The CP, Owoseni, said the suspects would be charged to court after investigations were concluded.