Househelp Who Stole Employer’s Car, $5000 And Other Valuables Eleven Days After Employment, Nabbed

Househelp Who Stole Employer’s Car, $5000 And Other Valuables Eleven Days After Employment, Nabbed

The police in Lagos state have arrested one Ben Peters, a househelp
that carted away his employers valuables eleven days after
employment. Ben was employed by seventy-three-year-old retiree,
Alexander Okoye, and his wife, Njideka Okoye, on October 12th.

However on October 24th 2018, the suspect stole the couples valuables
including their Toyota Camry saloon car 2008 model, five thousand
United States Dollars, six packet shirts and a Motorola Android phone. 

The distraught couple filed a petition to the Commissioner of Police
in Lagos state, CP Edgal Imohimi. Based on their complaint, the CP
directed CSP Kemi Adedeji and team attached to the Command’s Human
rights section to launch a manhunt for the fleeing househelp.

On Tuesday December 12th, the said Ben Peters was arrested at
his hideout in Agege, Lagos and some of the stolen items recovered from
him. Police investigation revealed that the suspects real name is Usang
Bassey Effiong and not Ben Peters as he made his employers to believe. 

Confessing to the crime, the suspect narrated that he noted where Mr.
Okoye usually hid his bedroom key and to gain access to it, he needed
to duplicate the living room key; so he went ahead and made a copy of
the living room key.  He said on October 23rd, he made up his mind to
break into the couple’s bedroom. And to do so undetected, he
disconnected the CCTV camera that would have recorded his activities,
picked up the bedroom key and constructively broke into the couple’s
room, stole their valuables and thereafter, drove off with their car.

The suspect added that robbing the couple was easy for him because
the househelp they dismissed before employing him, one Matthew Johnson
Abam,  was a member of his thieving  syndicate and he had furnished him
with relevant information about the couple even before he came to live
with them.

Both suspects are currently undergoing interrogation with a view to
helping the Police, arrest their partners in crime and recover the
stolen items.