The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Peter Odion, the chef of a
former Minister of Finance, Dr Kalu Idika, for his involvement in the
robbery of his boss.Odion lived with the ex-minister at 180A, Moshood Olugbani Street, Victoria Island, Lago
He had allegedly put some sedatives into a cup of coffee he served the ex-minister on a Wednesday morning.
After Idika slept off, Odion was said to have led his gang members into
the boss’ apartment, where they made away with a sum of N750,000, a
Blackberry, a Samsung phone and other valuables estimated at about N10m.
Odion was paraded on Monday at the police command office in Ikeja along
with four others identified as Samuel Ogana, Joy Omagu, Uboh Obi and
Sunday Emmanuel.
The state Acting Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, said operatives
of the State Intelligence Bureau, tracked down the suspects.
The CP said the gang members had wanted to adopt a similar method to rob
one Mrs. Augustina Akhibi, when they met their Waterloo.
He said, “The syndicate is made up of six members who specialise in
getting jobs as cooks or home helps and while in service, gain the trust
of their principals and inject their food with drugs to make them sleep
off. They thereafter cart away their principals’ belongings.
“The first victim, Dr Kalu Idika, was robbed of items worth N10,943,000
on September 20, 2017, while the second potential victim, Mrs. Akhibi,
was used by the police as a bait to bust the syndicate.”
He added that drug substances like Diazepam Injection, ground nitrogen
(morgodon) table, and a syringe filled with some substances, were
recovered from the gang.”
The chef, Odion, who admitted to the crime, told Punch Metro that he was desperate to get a sum of N60,000 his boss allegedly owed him.
He said, “I started working with the man some months ago. The man owed
me N60,000 and he refused to pay. I told my friend, Samuel (Ogana), and
he gave me the drug to put in his tea.
They came in when he was asleep and robbed him. I played along with
them. Other workers in the house did not know I was involved. I got
N100,000 from the proceeds.”
Twenty-year-old Omagu said Emmanuel acted as an agent and contracted her as a housemaid to Akhibi.
“He gave me some sedatives to make the woman sleep, but I had not used them when the police arrested me,” she added.
But 38-year-old Emmanuel denied that he gave the drugs to Omagu, noting that he had got a housemaid for the woman in the past.
He said, “I only told her (Omagu) that the woman was wicked and that she
could do whatever she liked to her. I don’t know anything about the
drugs.”
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