24 hours after vigilantes attached to the petroleum training
institutes, PTI Road in Warri, Delta state arrested a 24 year old man for
stealing a pot of soup, another man which is a father of two was also nabbed
for stealing food in Bayelsa state.
The suspect, identified as Kaduna Enatimi, 35, was nabbed by
a vigilance group, Igbogene Vigilance Committee in Yenagoa Local Government
Area of the state.
The 35-year-old man, an indigene of Akassa community of
Brass LGA of the state, allegedly stole a pot of soup, 12 wraps of fufu and a
half basin of garri flour and was arrested by the vigilantes at 2am on Thursday
while comfortably consuming some of the stolen wraps of fufu and the soup.
Enatimi confessed that hunger and economic hardship led him
to steal the pot of soup and the other food items, after which the Paramount
Ruler of the area, the Obenibe X1 of Epie Kingdom, King Hope Adike, intervened
and asked them to parade him round the community with the stolen items as
deterrent to others.
After parading the suspect round the village, Adike ordered
that he be released and asked to sin no more.
Also, speaking on the incident, the Head of the Igbogene
Vigilance Committee, Chief MoneySweet Asomo, told newsmen the suspect was
caught red handed “doing justice” to the soup and food items stolen from a
cafeteria owned by an Akwa Ibom State woman in the area.
He said, “We were on patrol at about 2am on Thursday.
“When we got to the Timida School area, we saw a man at a
local food joint eating. The food kiosk is owned by an Akwa Ibom indigene
popularly called Madam Blessing.”
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