They had always trusted their gun.
They believed that once they had it on them, whoever stood on their way was doomed.
But the same weapon woefully failed Abbey Kolawole and Ikenna Eze on Friday, when it refused to fire when it mattered most.
The consequence is what they are facing now: the 40-year-old and 30-year-old are now in police net in Lagos.
According to reports, the suspects were apprehended by residents of Shagari Estate residents in Iyana Ipaja area while trying to allegedly snatch a car.
They were said to have accosted two occupants of the target vehicle with their gang leader Femi now at large.
Femi, who held the gun, was said to have fired the first shot and attempted to fire a second at the car’s occupants who refused to alight.
Whether naturally or otherwise, however, the locally made double barrel gun got hooked.
the police said: “By this time, the residents of the area had emerged to check what was happening. The robbers fled in different directions and abandoned their gun.
“Kolawole and Eze were unfortunate as the people they were scaling their fences caught them and handed them over to Rapid Response Squad (RRS) operatives who intercepted distress call of robbery in the area.”
Confessing to the crime, Eze noted that Femi invited them to kill one of the occupants of the car who threatened him.
“The man came to Femi’s house in Agege Abbattoir with many cult members and threatened to kill Femi. So, Femi invited us to his house so that he would deal with the man first.
“The plan was to shoot the man in the leg but after firing the first shot into the air, the gun hooked and before he could reload it, residents came out and were moving towards us.
“Femi was the one who knew the road. He escaped while we, strangers in that community were arrested,” he said.
