Olusosun dump: Lagos state police arrest 6 suspects for stealing N8m valuables

Olusosun dump: Lagos state police arrest 6 suspects for stealing N8m valuables

- Lagos state police has arrested six suspected hoodlums for allegedly breaking into a firm near Olusosun dump

- They reportedly took advantage of the fire incident at Olusosun dump to break into Revive Technologies where they stole N8 million worth of valuables

- The suspects reportedly carted away with generator plant, weigh bridge machines, air conditioners, among others

Six suspected hoodlums have been arrested by the police for allegedly looting a firm near Olusosun dump in Ojota, Lagos, and stealing equipment worth N8 million.

The police identified the suspects as Abu Muhammed, 18; Emmanuel George, 43; Abubakar Ibrahim, 28; Abubakar Abdullahi, 24; Bello Champion, 24 and 25-year-old Adeniyi Ifelowo, Punch reports.

Legit.ng notes that the suspects reportedly cashed in on the confusion that followed the fire incident at the dump to break into the company, Revive Technologies, and carted away a generator plant, weigh bridge machines, air conditioners, bulldozer parts, computers, truck parts, among others.

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The dump went up in flames in the evening of Wednesday, March 14, destroying buses and offices of the Lagos State Waste Management Agency in the area. The fire was later put out by a combined team of the Lagos state firefighters and the state emergency management agency.

A police said: “The hoodlums lived around the scene of the fire incident. They broke into the firm during the fire and stole a lot of valuables. They thought the fire would spread to the firm to cover up their dastardly act.

“The soldiers guarding the firm caught six of them and brought them to the police for prosecution. They perpetrated the act around 11pm that day when the fire was on.”

The police arraigned the suspects at an Ikeja magistrate's court sitting in Ogba on three counts of stealing and burglary.

The charges read in part: “That you, Abu Muhammed, Emmanuel George, Abubakar Ibrahim, Abubakar Abdullahi, Bello Champion and Adeniyi Ifelowo, and others now at large, on March 14, 2018, at 23.30hrs, at Olusosun dump, in the Ikeja magisterial district, with intent to commit felony, broke and entered Revive Technologies offices.

“That you and others at large, on the same date, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district, did steal bulldozer parts, three air conditioners, doors, machine oil, wires, electric cables, weigh bridge machines, generator plant, window blinds, truck parts, computers and switch over box, valued at N8m, property of Revive Technologies, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”

However, the defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges and elected summary trial. They were granted bail by the presiding magistrate, A.O. Adedayo, in the sum of N200,000 each with two sureties each in like sum and adjourned the case till April 4, 2018.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a gang of six, suspected to be burglars were arrested by the Lagos state police command in the Ikoyi area of the state.

The suspected burglars, identified as Friday Eze, Stanley Ejiofor, Femi Miracle, Raphael Ijoha, Emmanuel Omojuwa and Daniel Thomas, were arrested by the operatives of the Ikoyi police division while sharing looted items in the area.

The gang members, facially identified to be between the ages of 24-30, were said to be notorious for breaking into houses and stealing valuables.

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Source: Legit.ng

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