I Exposed My Husband, Now I’m In Trouble –19-Year-Old Nursing Mother And Wife Of Robbery Suspect
A 19-year-old girl, Kate Olowu in a recent interview with Punch revealed how life has turn a different leaf after alerting the police about a robbery which in turn led to the arrest of her husband and father of her 2 weeks baby.
Kate's husband, Monday, was on Monday, May 26, 2014 arrested with a robbery gang over their involvement in the snatching of a Toyota Camry 2000 model, belonging to a pastor, Mr. Lawal.
Kate who stays with her husband and her 68-year-old mother-in-law, Mabel broke down in tears as she told Punch her version of the story.
The trouble started few weeks ago, when one of her husband, Monday’s customers and acquaintances, identified as Michael, walked into their house, which doubles as Monday’s shop for his embroidery designing work.
Kate who blamed herself for putting her husband in trouble after reporting the robbery incident and writing a statement at the police station explained, “That day, I was at home when Michael came in and gave a small bag to my husband to keep for him. Monday did not even open the bag, he just collected it and dropped it somewhere. But later, I overheard Michael speaking on the phone. I heard him saying they had snatched a car and that the owner was a pastor. I didn’t know who he was speaking with over the phone but I heard him say ‘I have kept the document with the boy who does embroidery for me.’
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“I was not comfortable because I hate stealing, let alone robbery. When Michael left, I went through the contents of the small bag that Michael had brought and found a name and a phone number.
“I called the number and the man at the other end said he was the agent from whom the vehicle was bought. I told the man about what happened and how Michael was planning to sell the stolen car and brought some goods to my husband. The man said he would inform the pastor. But later, the police came and arrested my husband.”
“I thought the man who kept the documents and other things with my husband would take all the blame since my husband knew nothing about the issue. I thought Michael would simply be arrested and that would be the end of it. I love my husband because he does not stay out late and he takes care of me despite the fact that we are poor and we both sometimes go to bed hungry,” she said.
Kate, however, said her mother-in-law who got to know that she was the cause of her son's arrest said she threatened her saying: “Mama has said she would send me packing with my child. I have nowhere to go. I have nothing. I stopped school when my mother died because there was no money to go further. My father is bedridden.
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“Mama came to marry me for Monday because we had nothing. I love my husband very much and I did not mean him any harm. The only close relative that I could pack out to live with is my grandma in Benin city (Edo State), but I don’t have a dime to even travel there.”
Kate said that the only thing that could save her from becoming homeless is for Monday to be released from police custody.
The Officer-in-Charge, SARS, Ikeja, Abba Kyari, declined to comment on the status of the case, saying he was not authorised to speak to journalists.
An informed senior officer at the command, however, denied that the police were responsible for disclosing Kate’s role in her husband’s arrest to Mabel.
“Police officers are not daft; most of the breakthroughs that the police have credited to informants. We can’t compromise our informants because of armed robbers. The information could have been leaked from another source that knows about it,” the source said.
A source at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad headquarters, Ikeja, which is handling the case, however told Saturday PUNCH that Monday (Kate's husband) and his accomplices, Michael and Asunmo were said to have approached the victim, Lawal at about 8pm when he was about to drive inside his compound in an estate in Egbeda area of Lagos and stole his car then robbed him of all the money he had with him including Automated Teller Machine cards, cheque books, some cash, project documents and a Bible.
Meanwhile the stolen car is yet to be recovered, more than four weeks after the incident, the stolen car is yet to be recovered.
According to the source the police suspect that the guns recovered from Monday’s house belonged to his late father, who was a veteran in the Nigerian Army.
The source said, “Some of us feel that the guns and uniforms belonged to Monday’s father and when he died, Monday started renting them out to his accomplices, who rob with them and give him his share of the spoils.
He said, “While in police custody, Monday even sent his brother to quickly go home and hide the guns before the police would find them. The brother did that that but when the police couldn’t find any gun in his house, they questioned him more since the complainant (Lawal) had alleged that he was threatened with a gun. Then, Monday confessed and told the police where to find the guns, including the one used to threaten Lawal.”
Meanwhile the Lagos State Police Command PPRO, Ngozi Braide is, however, yet to comment on the incident.
Source: Legit.ng
