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The
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The Lagos State Police
Command has arrested Peter Odion, the chef of a former Minister of Finance, Dr
Kalu Idika, for his involvement in the robbery of his boss.
The
Punch report continues:
Odion
lived with the ex-minister at 180A, Moshood Olugbani Street, Victoria Island,
Lagos.
He
had allegedly put some sedatives into a cup of coffee he served the ex-minister
on a Wednesday morning.
After
Idika slept off, Odion was said to have led his gang members into the boss’
apartment, where they made away with a sum of ₦750,000, a Blackberry, a Samsung
phone and other valuables estimated at about ₦10m.
Odion
was paraded on Monday at the police command office in Ikeja along with four
others identified as Samuel Ogana, Joy Omagu, Uboh Obi and Sunday Emmanuel.
The
state Acting Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, said operatives of the
State Intelligence Bureau, tracked down the suspects.
The
CP said the gang members had wanted to adopt a similar method to rob one Mrs.
Augustina Akhibi, when they met their Waterloo.
He
said, “The syndicate is made up of six members who specialize in getting jobs
as cooks or home helps and while in service, gain the trust of their principals
and inject their food with drugs to make them sleep off. They thereafter cart
away their principals’ belongings.
“The
first victim, Dr Kalu Idika, was robbed of items worth ₦10,943,000 on September
20, 2017, while the second potential victim, Mrs. Akhibi, was used by the
police as a bait to bust the syndicate.”
He
added that drug substances like diazepam Injection, ground nitrogen (morgodon)
tablet, and a syringe filled with some substances, were recovered from the
gang.”
The
chef, Odion, who admitted to the crime. He confessed that he was desperate
to get a sum of ₦60,000 his boss allegedly owed him.
He
said, “I started working with the man some months ago. The man owed me ₦60,000
and he refused to pay. I told my friend, Samuel (Ogana), and he gave me the
drug to put in his tea. They came in when he was asleep and robbed him. I
played along with them. Other workers in the house did not know I was involved.
I got ₦100,000 from the proceeds.”
Twenty-year-old
Omagu said Emmanuel acted as an agent and contracted her as a housemaid to
Akhibi.
“He
gave me some sedatives to make the woman sleep, but I had not used them when
the police arrested me,” she added.
But
38-year-old Emmanuel denied that he gave the drugs to Omagu, noting that he had
got a housemaid for the woman in the past.
He said, “I only told her (Omagu) that the woman was wicked and that she could do whatever she liked to her. I don’t know anything about the drugs.”
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