An aggrieved former employee almost succeeded in robbing his former boss with a toy gun in the commercial capital of Nigeria, Lagos State. Detectives attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a driver identified as Solomon James, for allegedly attempting to rob his boss and r*pe his master’s wife.
The suspect was alleged to have stormed his master’s home, identified as Utachy Odim, on July 21 and tried to carry out the dastardly act.
According to the police, James stormed Odim’s residence at Ademola Akande Street, Omole Estate, Lagos and held him and members of his household hostage with a toy gun. Unfortunately, the petrified Odim didn’t know that the gun was a toy.
He also didn’t know that the man attempting to rob him was his aggrieved driver, James. Before entering the apartment, James had cleverly masked his face with a woven material, so that Odim and other members of the household wouldn’t recognise him. After James breached the security of the house, he ordered Odim to lie face down, tied his hands behind his back and waved the gun threateningly in the victim’s frightened face.
Speaking on the matter, the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, said:
"He later asked for the victim’s Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) card. He tried to transfer money with the ATM, but he didn’t succeed due to network failure. He became aggressive and asked the victim to surrender the original documents of his car and the key, which he did.
"The suspect was also armed with a condom; he persistently asked for the victim’s wife, fortunately, the woman was not available at that material time. He succeeded in robbing the victim N38,000, his car key and his ATM card.”
The commissioner explained that on receiving the information about the robbery, he directed police operatives to the scene of the crime.
He said:
Narrating his own story, James said:
We agreed that anytime I rendered my services to him as his driver, he would pay me N5,000. We both agreed on this. I have now worked with him for about three months.
"I had since brought eight customers to him, but he refused to give me my commission. I got angry and decided to teach him a lesson.
“It was a vendetta for me. I went to his house last Friday about 8p.m. It was while I was knocking at the gate that I discovered it was unlocked. I made my way into the compound.
"When I got into the compound, I masked my face so that people wouldn’t recognise me. I already know the way into the house because I had worked three months for him. I made my way into the house through the kitchen.
"The first person I saw was the house help. She screamed when she sighted me, and then ran in the direction of the sitting room. I went after her and there I saw my boss seated. I pointed my toy gun at him, just to scare him.
"I asked him for his ATM card, so that I could make a quick transfer for some money, which I believed I had earned through customers that I brought to him.
"Unfortunately, the network was bad and the transfer couldn’t go through. I got angry and became scared that I could get caught. I asked him to give me his car keys and hand over the original documents of the car to me. He did as I requested.”
Asked why he came to the operation with a condom, asking for Odim’s wife, James said: “I repeatedly asked for his wife because I wanted to let the woman know what her husband had been doing behind her back.
"As for the condom; I didn’t go to Odim’s house with the condom, with the intention of using it. As a man, I’m always with condoms. My intention was not to use it on his wife. I was hurt, because I was cheated. I forgot that the battle was not mine to fight.”
Imohimi said:
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