AZ:5310/OGS/PRO/VOL.6/121 29/09/2019
POLICE PRESS RELEASE, OGUN STATE COMMAND
27YRS OLD MAN ARRESTED FOR ROBBING HIS EX- EMPLOYER
Police in Ogun State on Saturday 21st of September 2019 arrested a 27yrs old Ebuka for robbing and inflicted various degree of injuries on his ex- employer One Mrs Theresa Nnamdi.
The arrested of the suspect followed a distress call received by policemen at Mowe division at about 4:30pm that armed robbers have invaded the house of Mrs Theresa Nnamdi at Association Estate opposite Jehova Witness Church in Mowe and held the occupants of the house hostage.
On receiving the distress call, the DPO Mowe division SP Marvis Jayeola mobilized his anti-robbery team and moved to the scene, cordoned off the house and subsequently arrested one Ebuka Everest who have stabbed the woman on her right hand before tying her legs with rope and covered her mouth with cloth which he tore from her bedsheet.
The suspect who worked in the fish farm of his victim before he was sacked due to his shady character first went to the fish farm where he stabbed the farm manager severally before coming to attack the woman in her house, and forced her to transfer the sum of #40,000 to his account. He equally ransacked the woman’s room and made away with her laptop, the sum of #5,000 cash, phones and other valuable before he was arrested by the police with the help of members of the public.
On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have worked with the victim for 4 months and that he was living with the family throughout that period. He stated further that his problem started when he was duped of his four months’ salary by an online scammer who promised to help him travel abroad but ended up collecting his four months salary and blocked him online.
In order to have some money with him, he went to the farm, stole some items, but was caught by the manager who reported him to their boss and got sacked immediately.
It was that annoyance that made the suspect to first went to attack the farm manager before coming for the madam.
Recovered from him are a knife, broken bottle, the rope he used to tie the victim legs, phones, laptop and other items he stole in the house.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama has ordered the transfer of the suspect to State Criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation and prosecution.
DSP. ABIMBOLA OYEYEMI,
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
FOR :COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,
OGUN STATE COMMAND.
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