A robbery suspect, Ebuka , has told the Police that he attacked his former boss and her manager for sacking him. Ebuka who was arrested by the Ogun State police command for robbing and inflicting injuries on his ex-employer, Mrs.
Theresa Nnamdi and the company’s manager said he was angry that he was fired by her employer in time of distress. According to Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the arrest of Ebuka, followed a distress call received by policemen at Mowe police division at about 4:30 pm that armed robbers have invaded the house of Mrs. Nnamdi at Association Estate, opposite Jehovah’s Witness Church in Mowe and held the occupants of the house hostage.
“On receiving the distress call, the DPO Mowe division, SP Marvis Jayeola, mobilized his anti-robbery team and moved to the scene. The police cordoned off the house and subsequently arrested Ebuka Everest, who stabbed the woman in her right hand before tying her legs with rope and covered her mouth with a cloth which he tore from the bedsheets.
“The suspect who worked in the victim’s fish farm before he was sacked because of his alleged shady character had stabbed the farm manager severally before attacking the woman in her house and forced her to transfer #40,000 to his account.
He equally ransacked the woman’s room and made away with her laptop, the sum of #5,000 cash, phones and other valuable before he was arrested by the police with the help of members of the public. “On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have worked with the victim for four months and that he was living with the family throughout that period.
He stated further that his problem started when he was swindled of his four months’ salary by an online scammer who promised to help him travel abroad but ended up collecting his four months salary and blocked him online. “In order to have some money with him, he went to the farm, stole some items, but was caught by the manager who reported him to their boss who sacked him immediately.
“It was that annoyance that made the suspect to first rushed to attack the farm manager before coming for the madam”, he said. Recovered from the suspect, were a knife, broken bottle, the rope he used in tying his victim’s legs, phones, laptop and other items he stole in the house.
Meanwhile, Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department ( SCIID), for discreet investigation and prosecution.
