Lagos Police Nab Domestic Staff, One Other For Allegedly Robbing Japanese Employer N2.7m
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a domestic staff and his accomplice who connived to rob her Japanese employer, Yasushi Murata, in Lagos .
The suspects were arrested by detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department(SCIID),Panti.
The expatriate who works with Honda Automobile West Africa Ltd, but resident at Chris Ali Street, Abacha Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos.
According to Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer , DSP Adekunle Ajisebutu:” On February 1, the duo of Sossougueto Theodore, 50, a domestic worker to the victim, and Oluwasegun Olusoji, a neighbour, 35, conspired together and broke into the victim’s residence and forced him to transfer the sum of N1million into the Zenith Bank account of Oluwasegun Olusoji. After torturing and violently assaulting the victim, the robbers who were masked, armed with a gun, and an axe, made away with his ATM card after coercing him to disclose his PIN.
“A few days after the robbery, the suspects using the ATM, unlawfully and fraudulently withdrew the sum of N1,8050,making a total of N2, 729, 850.00, stolen from the victim’s bank account without authorization.
“The suspects feared for their arrest and in order to cover up the criminal act, threatened to kill the victim if he failed to leave the country or ever disclosed what happened to anyone.
“Unperturbed by the threat but pained by the injuries sustained, the victim after recovering from the trauma, reported the robbery through a petition to SCIID, Panti.
“Consequent upon the receipt of the petition, Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of SCIID , Adegoke Fayoade, immediately assigned seasoned detectives to investigate the incident.
“Painstaking investigation led to the arrest of the perpetrators. Upon interrogation, a member of the two-man armed robbery gang, Oluwasegun Olusoji, confessed to the crime and gave a vivid account of how the operation was jointly carried out.
“Following the conclusion of investigation, CP Abiodun Alabi, has directed that the case should be charged to court. The CP, however, admonishes employers to always carry out a thorough background check on their domestic staff before employing them, and be wary of criminal neighbours.”
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