Thirty-two-year-old Francis Okonkwo was sobbing as he narrated how he escaped death and landed in police custody. “I am happy that at least, the police arrested me; if not because of the police, I would be dead by now. The residents of the place I went to rob would have cut me into pieces,” he told our correspondent. Narrating how he took part in a robbery operation that nearly cost him his life, Okonkwo explained that he would have stuck to picking pocket which was safer. “I made up to N10,000 sometimes, when I was a pick-pocket at the Seme Border at Badagry,” he said remorsefully. “But I needed a lump sum of money to set up my electronics repair workshop. So, I decided to take part in this robbery operation. On March 24, 2015, an old acquaintance of Okonkwo’s, a young man he identified simply as Uche, told him to come to Sagamu. “I knew Uche about four years ago, when we were working at the Seme Border. At the time, I was doing odd jobs while also making money as a pic...