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The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS)
of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 41-year-old convict, identified
as Emmanuel Oyewunmi, for allegedly stealing from a driver and a passenger at
the Ojodu Berger bus-stop area of the state on Friday.
According to Punch
Metro, the suspect had earlier been declared wanted by the RRS for
allegedly stealing the phone of one Mrs. Adesewa Oni in the Alausa area of the
state.
The Ondo State-born suspect was a park keeper
outside the Ikeja Shopping Mall, when Oni drove in to attend a ceremony at the
Adeyemi Bero Auditorium.
For watching over her car, Oni, instead of giving
the suspect the N200 he requested, decided to drive him to a nearby ATM, where
she withdrew money and paid him N1,000.
Oyewunmi, however, stole the victim’s phone while
she was withdrawing cash from the ATM as Oni reportedly noticed that her phone
was stolen after leaving the area.
She said, “I had driven five minutes away from
Ikeja when I felt the urge to make some calls. It was then I realised that my
Samsung Galaxy S4 was missing. Quickly, my mind went to him and I realised my
folly. How could I have left a total stranger in my car alone, leaving
documents and valuable items in the car with him? I traced him back to that
spot, but he was gone.”
Oni reported to the matter to the RRS, which then
launched a manhunt for the suspect. However, he ran out of luck when he was
arrested on Friday after stealing N600 and a phone from a bus driver and a
passenger in the Ojodu Berger area.
He admitted to stealing Oni’s phone, upon
interrogation, saying he committed the crime when she left him in the car to
withdraw money from the ATM, adding that his stealing habit on his addiction to
hard drugs, adding that he had been rejected by his wife and parent due to the
problem.
He said, “As soon as I got the woman’s phone, I
went to Ipodo in Ikeja to get hard drugs. The hard drugs dealer bought the
phone from me at N8,000.
“Hard drugs have destroyed my life. They were the
cause of my rejection by my wife and my father. I got hooked on drugs while I
was young and getting out of the addiction has been extremely difficult for me.
“Some faith-based non-governmental organisations
have assisted me through rehabilitation in the past. I have, however, always
gone back to the habit. Drug has been the predominant cause of my imprisonment.
If I am imprisoned now, it will be my eighth time and third time this year.”
Oyewunmi also admitted to stealing from the bus
driver and passenger, saying he was under the influence of drug.
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