The Police Ondo State Command on Tuesday paraded 20 suspected robbers, including two brothers, for allegedly aiding their friends to rob their mother.
The State Commissioner of Police command, Mr. Sani Magaji, while parading the suspects, explained that six of them were arrested for kidnapping and five for armed robbery.
He also said three persons were arrested for killing a baby for ritual purposes; four for vandalisation, while a woman was nabbed for breaking into a shop through the ceiling and stealing some wares.
The two brothers, Azuka Okeke and Blessing Okeke, confessed to journalists that they had earlier stolen N1.25m from their mother, Mrs Ayodele Okeke, a petroleum product marketer based in Okitipupa.
The commissioner said the entire amount was recovered from the gang which also included Godwin, Peretu Fredrick, Ugochukwu Nwosu, and Akindele Ogunmusere.
He said they were arrested in a hotel in Okitipupa while planning to rob Mrs. Okeke with the aid of a map, showing security points and residence of their target.
Blessing, a 300 level Political Science student at the Novena University, Kwale, in Delta State, told journalists in an interview that he stole the N1.25m from his mother’s bedroom.
A 30-year-old woman, Mrs. Bosede Johnson, who was arrested with two Ghana-Must-Go bags of expensive clothes allegedly stolen from a shop on Oda Road, Akure also confessed to the act.
Johnson said she sold the stolen items in her shop located at the Alaafia Tayo area of Akure and used the proceeds to take care of her two children, having lost her husband few years ago.
She said, “I used to gain access to the shops through the ceiling, which I will cleverly climb at nights. I used to sell all the stolen materials in my own shops to unsuspecting members of the public.
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