A mobile phone thief, who was arrested with his accomplice, has pleaded
with the Police in Lagos that his parents must not know that he was
engaged in stealing. The thieves, Ufoma Asakpa, 22, and Augustine Omedo,
20, have confessed to the crime after their arrest with both accusing
each other of leading one another into the act.
Vanguard reports
that the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State
Police Command that apprehended them alleged that they specialised in
stealing handsets and valuable items. The Police said the suspects, who
burgle shops of innocent members of public at Abule-Oja in Yaba, were
arrested by the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police
Command on Oct. 13.
One of them, who hail from Ndokwa Local
Government Area in Delta State, told NAN that his parents must not know
that he was caught for stealing. In his confessional statement, he said:
“I was a secondary school dropout. I was unable to proceed to senior
classes after I failed Junior WAEC.
“My parents took me to my
brother’s shop to learn how to repair generators but I couldn’t endure
the period of apprenticeship. “While looking for ways to earn quick
money, I met my partner who introduced me to stealing. I joined him
about 10 months ago and the police never caught us. “In fact, my parents
must not know that I am a thief because I leave home every day as if I
was going to work.
“I have regretted my actions for taking to
stealing for survival. It is the devil that pushed me into it,’’ he
said. His accomplice, who lives at number 10, Kehinde Str, Ajegunle,
Lagos, regretted that bad friendship lured him into stealing. “When I
entered the shop pretending to buy a sachet of water to cook rice, I saw
a phone charging in that shop.
“I took the phone and switched it
off immediately. My partner had also gone to another shop to steal
phones too. “We had successfully stolen those phones but suddenly, we
saw RRS men chasing us. “As we were about to mount on our motorcycle, we
were crossed and arrested,’’ he said in his confessional statement.
The
two suspects revealed that they had stolen about 70 phones this year
and identified their buyer simply as Alfa who owns a shop at Boundary in
Ajegunle. The owner of the shop, Mr Oluwole Allen, who followed them to
the Police’s Headquarters, said that he never had any inkling that the
two suspects were phone thieves when they entered his shop.
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