LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICEOFNAIJA)- The Osun State Police Command has arrested 47 year old Sekoni Ramon Temitope, for alleged burglary and theft of 500 vehicle shafts worth millions of naira.
While parading the suspect in Osogbo, the Police command revealed that on 4 February , 2023, Sekoni, son of the landlord of the warehouse where the vehicle parts were stolen, was arrested after a complainant reported at Dugbe Police Station, Osogbo.
Yemisi Opalola, Spokesmen to the Osun State Police command , in his address to the press, revealed that the suspect would be charged to court after investigations are carried out as to all complaints laid.
“On 4\2\2023 at about 8:00am the complainant reported at Dugbe Police Station that on 3/2/23023, when he got to his shop located at Ajegunle, he discovered that it has been broken into and the above exhibits (goods) worth six million five hundred thousand naira only (N6,500,000) were carted away by thief or thieves.
“The police operatives quickly put investigation mechanism in place, hence the arrest of the suspect and the recovered stolen goods,” the statement issued by the Police read.
The victim of the burglary, Adebisi Tajudeen, in an interview with the press, revealed that he had lost vehicle shafts with goods worth more than ten million naira to the suspect.
In his words: “The goods exhibited were the ones found in his room. Sekoni is a hardened criminal. He steals my goods late at night by entering the warehouse through the roof and leaves around 6am to sell them.
“Nobody has been suspecting him since he’s the landlord’s son. When I grew suspicious of him, I took some policemen there but they could not apprehend him.
“He was arrested because I was fortunate to see him departing early that morning because I was in my shop trying to organize some of my goods which just came by road from Lagos. When I saw him, I held on to him and alerted the Police.
“He is not the only guilty party here. The people buying those goods from him should be arrested too because they are all guilty of buying stolen goods. When they are arrested too, we may get to the bottom of this matter.”
Other suspects paraded by the Police command are identified as 30-year-old Ojo Olowokere, for theft of a Bajaj motorcycle on Monday, February 6, 2023, 5-year-old Adeoti Seun, 32-year-old Adesanmi Saheed and 25-year-old Bamitale Rasheed, all suspects of armed robbery .
