A domestic staff in a private estate in Lagos, Salaudeen Abdulbaki, has confessed to bolting away with his employer’s Range Rover SUV, just to punish him.
The suspect who was arrested in his hideout in the Jabi area of Abuja was about to sell of the vehicle for N30 million when he was arrested.
Abdulbaki who was paraded before news men at the Headquarters of Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos State, allegedly bolted away with the unregistered vehicle four months after working as a domestic staff for one Chief Olasode Martins, in private estate in Lagos.
According to him: “Before I started working with my employer as a domestic staff, he promised to invest in my future. He asked me what my salary was at my former place of work. I told him that I was paid N70,000 from the two jobs I was doing then. He said he will pay me N50,000.
“The first month he paid me N50,000. He paid me N40,000 the second month and there after he started treating me like a slave. I re- signed my appointment the fourth month and left. I came back three days later with the plan to steal the car,” he confessed....Read Full Article [Click Here>]
The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Zone 2 Police Command, Adegoke Fayoade, while briefing news men on the arrest yesterday, said the suspect was arrested based on a petition that was written by one Chief Olasode Martins on July 11, against some criminal syndicates who he claimed entered into his premises and carted away his white Range Rover SUV.
The AIG who was represented by the Zonal Public Relations Officer, Ummar Ayuba, stated that based on the strength of the petition, he directed the Anti-Piracy Unit for discreet investigation and report.
“A team of police investigators from the Zonal Anti-Piracy Unit swung into action through technology driven policing which revealed that it was the domestic staff, one Salaudeen Abdulbaki, who served the petitioner for barely four months and resigned who sent his friend one Mohammed Jamiu five days after he left to the estate.
“The suspect, having been acquainted with his boss’ daily itinerary hence he constructively opened the gate and carted away the complainant’s vehicle knowing that the SUV was unregistered.
