A notorious armed robber, Egun George, who snatched N500,000 from the driver of the wife of former governor of Oyo State, Mrs Oluwakemi Alao-Akala, killed him after trailing him from a bank, has confessed to have belonged to a cult group while he was a student of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, and that he started using guns then.

The suspected armed robber, who disclosed this after his arrest on Tuesday, also said he never believed that he could be arrested as he was very careful in evading the police.

He described the way he was arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ibadan, as a dream that he would have liked to wake up from.

George was described as a notorious armed robber who was using motorcycles to terrorise Ibadan while moving about the city to snatch vehicles and rob bank customers.

It was gathered on Sunday that in an operation that led to his eventual arrest, George's gang had trailed one Mr Oshodi to his house on July 11, 2014, at Challenge area of Ibadan, and forcefully robbed him of his Hyundai Elantra car valued at N3.5 million.

But two of the armed robbers, David Ida and Fatai Olowookere, were intercepted by policemen from Kwara State Command same day and were arrested with the car.

It was learnt that after the case was transferred to Ibadan, detectives from SARS, led by the Officer-in-Charge, Superintendent of Police Michael Eneji, acted on the confession of the arrested duo and went after other members of the gang.

Their efforts paid off when they went to Inalende and Opoyeosa areas of Ibadan and arrested Kolawole Lasisi and Sikiru Olayiwola on July 30.