Akorede, a member of a six-man armed robbery gang, whom the police say had adopted a new method of cutting off victims’ fingers and wrist to make them part with huge sums and valuables, alleged that his step mother used her witchcraft powers to force him into crime.

Source : GISTREEL.com

The man, according to the police, is not only vicious but also impatient with any victim who is without good phone or cash at home when the gang visits.

Akorede and his gang members were arrested following outcry by residents of Aboru. In his statement to the police, Akorede said that his father had good plans for himself and his siblings but everything crashed when his father remarried after he divorced his mother.

He said: “My step mother used her witchcraft power to stall my future and made me a criminal…