Uchenna , Guard knocks sales girl unconscious steals 2.1 million worth of goods

Uchenna , Guard knocks sales girl unconscious steals
2.1 million worth of goods

Uchenna Okoh, a security guard
has been arrested for alleged theft of goods worth 2.1
million naira at a shop on Ikotun-Idimu Road, Lagos
State.

Uchenna, visited the shop  Finest Couture
Boutique on  the 20th day of June, 2016

pretending he wanted to buy some
clothings.

While negotiating the prices with Juliet Aghedo, the salesgirl
he was said to have lured her into a corner in the shop and
squeezed her neck thereby passing her out.

Okoh, who worked as a security guard in the Mushin area,
reportedly carted away a bag, 56 pairs of jeans, 36 pieces of women
leggings, 15 shirts, 13 wristwatches and four mobile phones valued
at about N2.1m, before Aghedo regained consciousness.

The shop owner, Francisca Osomiha, a lawyer,
reported the matter to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
Fatai Owoseni, through a petition.

Part of the petition read:

“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.

“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.â€

The police eventually apprehended him after tracking him down
with his picture generated from the CCTV.

“The phone number he used to call the
salesgirl was also used to trail him. He had confessed to the
crime,†a police source added.

Okoh, in his statement to the police, said he sold the stolen
items to one Francis at Computer Village, Ikeja, adding that he
took to stealing sometime in 2010 while in Benin, Edo State.

He 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.â€

A police prosecutor, Sergeant Donjor Perezi, brought the suspect
before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court on Monday on
three counts bordering on robbery.

The presiding magistrate, Mrs. O. Olanipekun, did not take the
plea of the defendant and ordered that he should be remanded in
prison. Case was adjourned to November 17, 2016,

 

 

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