Uchenna Okoh, a security guard at Mushin has been arrested and paraded in court for beating a sales girl to coma and stealing goods at a shop on Ikotun-Idimu Road, Lagos State, worth N2.4 million.
Following the incident, the owner of the burgled shop, Francisca Osomiha, a lawyer, promptly lodged a petition to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni.
“On June 16, a man walked into Finest Couture Boutique which is under my care. The man (Okoh) pretended he wanted to buy jeans but the price he was asking for did not go down well with us. So he left, leaving his phone number with the salesgirl.” Francisca’s petition read in part.
Continuing, Francisca’s petition read thus; “This same man, on June 18, called her on the phone that he was around the shop to buy the goods. But when we got to the shop, till the end of the day, he didn’t show up. On June 20, just as she (Aghedo) was opening for the day business, the man came to the shop, pretending he had come to buy the goods.
“He lured her into the inner shop where he knew nobody would hear her screams. He held her neck to the point that she started foaming in the mouth and fainted. He packed away those things, including N280, 000 cash not knowing that our Closed Circuit Television was on and had picked all that happened.”
A police source revealed that the suspect was nabbed after he was tracked down with his picture generated from the CCTV. The source also revealed that the phone number he used to call the salesgirl was also used to trail him.
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Confessing to his crime, Okoh said; “I am a security guard at Mushin. I have been robbing at plazas in Ikotun for some time now. I sold the jeans I stole on that day to Francis at Computer Village for N1, 000 a pair. He bought four pairs of canvas for N2, 500 each. I was introduced to stealing when I was in Benin.”
While reading his charge before the Ikeja Magistrate court, the prosecutor, Sergeant Donjor Perezi said Okoh’s offence was punishable under sections 228, 295 and 297 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
“That you, Uchenna Okoh, and others now at large, on June 20, 2016, at about 9am, at Finest Couture Boutique on Ikotun-Idimu Road, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did steal one ‘travel’ bag worth, N14,000; 53 pairs of jeans worth N7,000 each; 32 pairs of women’s leggings valued at N192,000; three pairs of canvas worth N25,000 each; 13 wristwatches valued at N25,000 each; 15 pairs of shirts worth N97,000 and four assorted phones valued at N778,000. All valued at N2, 140,000, property of one Francisca Osomiha.” Okoh’s charge read in part.
Before adjourning the case till November 17, 2016, the presiding magistrate, Francisca Osomiha however did not take the plea of the defendant and ordered that he should be remanded in prison.
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