Lagos Task Force Arrests Notorious ‘Awawaa Boys’ Leader

Operatives of the Lagos State Task
Force arrested the notorious ‘Awawaa
Boys’ deadly leader, Tobi Akinbayo
a.k.a (Scorpion) and two others
Muyideen Olayinka and Ibrahim
Olaniran at Aluminium Village,
Dopemu, Agege area of Lagos State
yesterday.
The Chairman of the Lagos State
Task Force, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi
while parading the three suspects
yesterday confirmed that the
activities of these notorious
‘Awawaa Boys’ have been given his
Agency and other State Security
Services sleepless nights.
He stated further that reported
cases of rape, armed robbery and
killing of innocent citizens by these
‘Awawaa Boys’ has become
worrysome.
He confirmed that other terrorising
group leaders who were at large
includes one Paul a.k.a (Bouncing)
leader of ‘Nokia Group’ and Habeeb
a.k.a (Oluwa) of ‘Shita Boys’ who
have killed, raped and robbed
innocent citizens of their valuable
properties around Aluminium
Village, Dopemu, Agege.
Arrested notorious ‘Awawaa Boys’
kingpin Tobi Akinbayo a.k.a
(Scorpion) who lives at No. 10
Salako Street, Alluminium Village,
Dopemu confessed that he and his
boys raped, burgled and killed
innocent citizens who confronted
them during any of their
operations around Dopemu area.
Tobi said:-
“We sell Indian hemp to
commercial bus drivers and area
boys around Dopemu and it’s
environs”.
Arrested notorious ‘Awawa Boys’
kingpins Tobi Akinbayo a.k.a
Scorpion (25 years) Ibrahim
Olaniran (20 years) and Muyideen
Olayinka (18 years)
He confessed further that they
forcefully raped one Miss. Rufia
Ogunbowale the daughter of one
Mrs Taiwo Iyabo who lives at 26,
Bello Street, Dopemu, Agege on the
5th of May, 2016 at about 12 noon.
Akinbayo a.k.a (Scorpion) who is
28 years old a native of Kuta-ilegbo
Town, Abeokuta, Ogun State said
that ‘Awawaa Boys’ is one
unberella and that they only have
branches at different parts of the
State and that he is the leader of
the group that controls Dopemu and
its environs.
While another trader, Mrs Bunmi
Adeoye said ‘Awawaa Boys’ had
used cutlass to cut on off her finger
when she resisted them from
forcefully entering her shop for
illegal security levies being charged
without any government backing.
Meanwhile, a 12-year old Miss.
Rufia Ogunbowale who was raped
said Tobi Akinbayo a.k.a (Scorpion)
jumped through the fence to enter
their room on that faithful day
while her mother went to the
market and tied her mouth with the
scarf on her head and raped her
leaving her in a pool of blood after.
She said her mother who could not
do anything because of fear of
being attacked quickly took her to
Abeokuta where she was treated
and that since then she has been
living in Abeokuta at her late
father’s house.
According to Miss. Rufia
Ogunbowale who was raped
“Tobi Akinbayo a.k.a (Scorpion)
threatened to kill my mother if
she dare report them to any
security Agencies including the
Nigerain Police”.
Mrs. Taiwo Iyabo (46 years) of No
26, Bello Street, Dopemu, Agege the
mother of the raped girl confessed
that “truly they raped my daughter
but as they threatened to kill me
and other children if I should
report to the Police I quickly took
her to her late father’s house at
Abeokuta for local treatment and
since then she has been staying
there for the safety of her life”.