Thieves appear to be
targeting the treasure boxes of wives of Nigeria’s retired generals with
another case of a house help who stole the jewellery of the wife of General Olu
Bajowa.
Last month in Kano, thieves stole the
N20million jewellery of Mariam, wife of the late Nigerian dictator, General
Sani Abacha.
The latest incident happened in Ibadan.
The suspect, Kingsley Aimekhu , a house
help of the former acting Military Governor, South East Region and River States
and ex- Ondo State Gubernatorial candidate, General Olu Bajowa, stole the
jewellery, worth N25m from the wife of the General.
Aimekhu has been arrested and currently
cooling his heels at the police cell alongside his accomplice, Alhaji Umaru
Haruna .
Haruna buys and sells stolen property at
Sabo Area of Ibadan, capital of Oyo State.
The alleged thief stole the property in
the General’s house in Ibadan.
The alleged thief who was on the run for
some days was eventually tracked down by policemen attached to the Monitoring
Unit of Oyo State Police Command.
P.M. NEWS gathered that luck ran out of
the thief when Mrs. Bajowa suspected that the only person that could do such a
job was her ex-house help which led her mentioning him to the police.
P.M. NEWS gathered that the police
succeeded in arresting him through his friend who led them to where he was
hiding.
Confessing, Aimekhu
said that he sold the jewellery to Alhaji Haruna at Sabo at the price of N13m
adding that the Alhaji specializes in buying stolen property adding that out of
the N13m, he bought Volkswagen Bora car.
Aimekhu stated that he worked for his
victim for two and half years before he was sacked stressing that he decided to
go into stealing because he was jobless.
Narrating how he was arrested, he said, “I
know everything about the house and I know when my master will not be around.
So, on September 29, 2012 around 9a.m, I went to the house knowing that nobody
would be at home. I jumped in and went to my madam’s room and stole her
jewellery, wrist watch and other things.
He disclosed to PM NEWS that he has a
house in Ibadan which he built from the proceeds made from criminal acts.
Haruna, who bought the jewellery, admitted
that though, he bought it at N13m; he knew that it was more valuable.
The new Commissioner of Police in the
state, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu also paraded a 300 level Mass Communication Student
of Leads City University, Ibadan identified as Nurudeen for his involvement in
internet scam.
The suspect who was arrested at a
Cybercafé where he was carrying out his dastardly act confessed that he got
into internet scam so that he could better his life and improve his quality of
life.
He said that he made $10,000 in the space
of three months from his first operation and $7,000 from the second operation.
According to him, he bought a jeep of
about N7m from the proceeds of the scam.
“Nigeria police are making mistakes. The
whites who we get money from are fraudsters themselves. They want to make fast
money but at the end, we are faster than them. The two white ladies from United
States of America were trying to make illegal money from me and I beat them to
it by making illegal money from them. I asked them to send the money if they
wanted me to do what they wanted from me and what they wanted is fraud too”.
He further confessed that whenever he is
on holiday, he does not take his vehicle home so that his parents would not
question him adding that his parents are not aware of what he is doing”.
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