Operatives of the Special
Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos have arrested a female house help who
allegedly connived with her boyfriend and two fake soldiers to rob her master
of over 100,000 Dollars.
The 23 year-old house help,
Adaeze Ijeoma, allegedly sneaked into her master’s bedroom located in Maryland,
Lagos, last month, after he traveled out of the country. Unsure of where to
keep the foreign currency, she reportedly took it to her boyfriend, one
Onyebuchi Uche, only for him to flee with the money, leaving Adaeze in doubt.
On his part, Onyebuchi , who
has been jobless for years, rushed to Alade market, Ikeja where he changed some
of the dollars to naira and thereafter, deposited the sum of N8 million in two
banks. He thereafter, told operatives at SARS that he also bought a car; ‘End
of Discussion’ and a plot of land in an undisclosed area where he had started
molding blocks for building.
Determined to get her own
share of the loot from him, betrayed Adaeze was said to have confided with one
of her relatives identified simply as Nnamdi to help retrieve the money from
her estranged lover.
Nnamdi and two other persons
clad in Military camouflage reportedly stormed Maryland last week where on
spotting Onyebuchi, bundled him inside his new vehicle and took him to a hotel
in Mende area of Lagos, where they reportedly tortured him and forced him to
disclose where he kept the money. They reportedly managed to get the sum of
N6.5 million from two separate banks where Onyebuchi kept the money, including
the new car he bought.
However, just when Adaeze
was contemplating on what to do with her own share of the recovered loot, an
eight man robbery gang reportedly stormed her master’s home, where an
unspecified amount including his phones and other valuables were carted away.
The robbery case was
reported at SARS after which Adaeze and two other persons were arrested.
Although she denied having a hand in the recent robbery, she however, disclosed
her role in the theft of 100,000 Dollars.
In this interview with Crime Guard, she
said: “ I am from Akri village in Ogbaru Local Government area of Anambra
State. I left the village in 2010, after my secondary school education in
search of greener pastures in Lagos, where I started working as a house-help
for Chief Uche and was paid the sum of N10,000 monthly. I lived in the same
apartment with chief and to be honest to him, he has treated me as a member of
the family.
“I met my boyfriend Onyebuchi after being
lonely for a while in 2011. I was tempted to steal my boss’s money and gave it
to my boyfriend to keep so that we can start our own life. I gave him because
he promised he would marry me. I stole the money so that we can, at least, get
a lease of life when married. I believed he would use it wisely because he has
always had plans for the future.
“But I began suspecting foul play after he
stopped picking my calls . When I went to where he lives in Mende, I was told
he usually came home late. Later, those who know us told me he started driving
a car. That was when I contacted my uncle, Nnamdi to help retrieve the money
from him. On the day, he was to go with his two soldier friends, I waited at Mende
for Onyebuchi and when I sighted him, I pointed him to them and left for home
immediately. After he was tortured, he called me on the phone that he was sick
and when I went to see him, he said some robbers stole the money from him and
even battered him to stupor“I swear, I do not know anything about the other
robbery operation in the house. The robbers came armed and forced me to take
them round the house. They only got some money in the guest room and took my
master’s Black berry phone, his gold wrist watch and other things. They also
took my phone but left it at the backyard. I did what I did out of love for my
boyfriend, not knowing he would betray me. Now he has fled, leaving me to bear
the consequences alone, without having a taste of the money, “ she stated in
tears.
On his part, Nnamdi claimed
he was once a military personnel but resigned on his return from a foreign
mission where he got the sum of N2 million. Surprisingly, Nnamdi was discovered
to be an in-law to Chief Uche. “I am from Akaokwa village, in Ideato North
Local Government area, Imo State and the complainant is married to my father’s
sister. I used to sleep in their house any time I came to Lagos to sell palm
oil and at times, I spent one month.
“When Adaeze told me about the money, I
threatened I was going to tell her boss. But on second thought, I thought if I
got the money, I could use it to enrich myself. I then contacted Chima, my
friend who is now at large. It was Chima who contacted a soldier who initially
gave his name as Corporal Humphrey. It was later we discovered he was a
dismissed soldier. We lodged at Tropicana Hotel in Mende Maryland ,where we
took Onyebuchi to. I was in full Army uniform while Ajaghe my other friend, was
wearing a camouflage cap, pretending to be soldiers.
“We tied him to a ceiling fan and beat him
in order to force him to tell us where he kept the money. We seized his car.
And ordered him to transfer the N2.4 million he said was in First Bank and N5.5
million in Fidelity bank to my account for easy withdrawal. We used ATM card to
withdraw the money for one week from one of the banks while we withdrew the
rest from separate branches of the other bank. At the end, I gave Onyebuchi’s
car to Chima to keep and N500,000 to Ajaghe , while I kept the rest, with the
hope of giving some to Adaeze and keeping the rest”, he said, adding that he
knew nothing about the robbery operation at Chief Uche’s apartment.
The Commander, SARS, Mr Abba
Kyari, said the suspects would be charged to court while efforts were still on
to arrest other fleeing members of the gang.
Source: Vanguard
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