Operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos
have arrested a female house help who allegedly connived with her boyfriend and
two fake soldiers to rob her master of over 100,000 Dollars.
The 23 year-old house help, Adaeze Ijeoma, allegedly sneaked
into her master’s bedroom located in Maryland,
Lagos, last month, after he traveled
out of the country. Unsure of where to keep the foreign currency, she
reportedly took it to her boyfriend, one Onyebuchi Uche, only for him to flee
with the money, leaving Adaeze in doubt.
On his part, Onyebuchi , who has been jobless for years,
rushed to Alade market, Ikeja where he changed some of the dollars to naira and
thereafter, deposited the sum of N8 million in two banks. He thereafter, told
operatives at SARS that he also bought a car; ‘End of Discussion’ and a plot of
land in an undisclosed area where he had started molding blocks for building.
Determined to get her own share of the loot from him,
betrayed Adaeze was said to have confided with one of her relatives identified
simply as Nnamdi to help retrieve the money from her estranged lover.
Nnamdi and two other persons clad in Military camouflage
reportedly stormed Maryland last
week where on spotting Onyebuchi, bundled him inside his new vehicle and took
him to a hotel in Mende area of Lagos,
where they reportedly tortured him and forced him to disclose where he kept the
money. They reportedly managed to get the sum of N6.5 million from two separate
banks where Onyebuchi kept the money, including the new car he bought.
However, just when Adaeze was contemplating on what to do
with her own share of the recovered loot, an eight man robbery gang reportedly
stormed her master’s home, where an unspecified amount including his phones and
other valuables were carted away.
The robbery case was reported at SARS after which Adaeze and
two other persons were arrested. Although she denied having a hand in the
recent robbery, she however, disclosed her role in the theft of 100,000
Dollars.
In this interview with Crime Guard, she said:
“I am from Akri village in Ogbaru Local Government area of Anambra
State. I left the village in 2010,
after my secondary school education in search of greener pastures in Lagos,
where I started working as a house-help for Chief Uche and was paid the sum of
N10,000 monthly. I lived in the same apartment with chief and to be honest to
him, he has treated me as a member of the family.
“I met my boyfriend Onyebuchi after being lonely for a while
in 2011. I was tempted to steal my boss’s money and gave it to my boyfriend to
keep so that we can start our own life. I gave him because he promised he would
marry me. I stole the money so that we can, at least, get a lease of life when
married. I believed he would use it wisely because he has always had plans for
the future.
“But I began suspecting foul play after he stopped picking
my calls . When I went to where he lives in Mende, I was told he usually came
home late. Later, those who know us told me he started driving a car. That was
when I contacted my uncle, Nnamdi to help retrieve the money from him. On the
day, he was to go with his two soldier friends, I waited at Mende for Onyebuchi
and when I sighted him, I pointed him to them and left for home
immediately.
After he was tortured, he called me on the phone that he was
sick and when I went to see him, he said some robbers stole the money from him
and even battered him to stupor“I swear, I do not know anything about the other
robbery operation in the house. The robbers came armed and forced me to take
them round the house. They only got some money in the guest room and took my
master’s Black berry phone, his gold wrist watch and other things. They also
took my phone but left it at the backyard. I did what I did out of love for my
boyfriend, not knowing he would betray me. Now he has fled, leaving me to bear
the consequences alone, without having a taste of the money, “ she stated in
tears.
On his part, Nnamdi claimed he was once a military personnel
but resigned on his return from a foreign mission where he got the sum of N2
million. Surprisingly, Nnamdi was discovered to be an in-law to Chief Uche. “I
am from Akaokwa village, in Ideato North Local Government area, Imo
State and the complainant is
married to my father’s sister. I used to sleep in their house any time I came
to Lagos to sell palm oil and at
times, I spent one month.
“When Adaeze told me about the money, I threatened I was
going to tell her boss. But on second thought, I thought if I got the money, I
could use it to enrich myself. I then contacted Chima, my friend who is now at
large. It was Chima who contacted a soldier who initially gave his name as
Corporal Humphrey. It was later we discovered he was a dismissed soldier. We
lodged at Tropicana Hotel in Mende Maryland
,where we took Onyebuchi to. I was in full Army uniform while Ajaghe my other
friend, was wearing a camouflage cap, pretending to be soldiers.
“We tied him to a ceiling fan and beat him in order to force
him to tell us where he kept the money. We seized his car. And ordered him to
transfer the N2.4 million he said was in First Bank and N5.5 million in
Fidelity bank to my account for easy withdrawal. We used ATM card to withdraw
the money for one week from one of the banks while we withdrew the rest from
separate branches of the other bank. At the end, I gave Onyebuchi’s car to
Chima to keep and N500,000 to Ajaghe , while I kept the rest, with the hope of
giving some to Adaeze and keeping the rest”, he said, adding that he knew
nothing about the robbery operation at Chief Uche’s apartment.
The Commander, SARS, Mr Abba Kyari, said the suspects would
be charged to court while efforts were still on to arrested other fleeing
members of the gang.
Source: Vanguard
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