A casual worker, Johnson
Adebowale, has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command
for allegedly stealing 28 television sets on Victoria Island. 45-year-old
Adebowale took the items shortly after he was sacked by his employers, Atlantic
Exhibition Nigeria Limited. The suspect sneaked into the store
where the company kept some electronics gadgets and loaded 28 television sets
into a truck he brought for the mission. He was said to have transported the
stolen TV sets to his home in the Ibafo area of Ogun State.
Policemen from the Victoria Island
Police Division, who got information that the suspect was selling the items at
cheap prices, swooped on him and recovered some of the stolen items. A police
source said the suspect had already sold some of the TV sets to people in the
neighbourhood by the time he was nabbed.
He said, “The affected company is
into exhibition of products. They were in partnership with a hotel on the Lagos
Island where the electronics products were displayed. The electronics were
usually kept in a store, which was constructed by the suspect. So, he knew his
way round the store.
“On August 6, after he had been
sacked by the firm, he sneaked into the store and loaded 28 LG Plasma TV sets
inside a truck and drove away with them. By Monday, the company discovered that
the television sets were gone and a complaint was lodged at the Victoria Island
Police Station.”
Another source explained that
footages from the CCTV cameras were useless to the detectives. He said it was
not until the operatives got information that the suspect was selling the TV
sets that the police got a break.
“We mobilised and swooped on him. We
discovered that he turned his house into an electronic shop and was selling the
television sets, claiming that he was a TV manufacturer’s agent. He had already
sold six for N50,000 each. The market value for each of the TV sets is between
N130,000 and N200,000. We recovered the rest from him,” he added.
The Police Public Relations Officer,
SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident, adding that the suspect had been
charged to court.
That guy is a confirmed thief
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