I Joined Armed Theft To Purchase Child Gadgets For My Pregnant Spouse — Suspect

One Sunkanmi Adeoye who’s at the moment in police custody confessed that he delved into armed theft over frustration to get child objects for his pregnant spouse as she is about to ship their first youngster.

The suspect, Naija Information understands was arrested in Lagos alongside his accomplices, Kamurudeen Kadiri, aged 30 and Owoseni Adekunle, 27.

41-year-old Adeoye who was interrogated on the power headquarters in Lagos regretted his actions saying it was his first time in a theft and his spouse is about to bear them a baby.

The suspect who confessed to being a photographer stated he was launched into the gang by one Aro who had assured him that they’ll get some huge cash from the operation.

Sadly for Adeoye, all of them met their waterloo as they finally landed within the hand of safety operatives whereas attempting to promote components of a automobile they’d stolen.

In his phrase, Adeoye stated: “Aro informed me we had been going for a theft operation and I agreed to be a part of it as a result of he assured me that I’ll get cash from it. I’m a photographer however I wanted assist.

“I didn’t know them earlier than the theft operation. This was our first youngster; my spouse doesn’t know that I’ve been arrested.”

Additionally confessing, Adekunle stated: “I began stealing and promoting folks’s turbines. I made between N15,000 and N20,000 every time I stole and offered a generator. From there I started to steal and promote cocoa.

“I don’t drink, smoke or womanise, I used the proceed I produced from petty stealing to feed. I’m a tiler however I hardly get jobs.”

A press release, nevertheless, made obtainable to newsmen on Wednesday by the spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, stated the trio are members of an interstate theft syndicate that specialised in snatching and promoting stolen vehicles in Lagos, Ondo and Ogun states.

Hundeyin defined that the three suspects had been arrested on August 31 across the Berger space in Lagos whereas attempting to promote a metallic grey-coloured Toyota Corolla automotive they stole in Ondo State.

The PPRO stated an investigation is ongoing to arrest the fleeing members of the gang because the chief of the gang remains to be at giant, Naija Information experiences.