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Police nab 2 security guards for robbing boss over delayed salaries
Men of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two security guards who reportedly robbed their boss for delaying their monthly salary.
The suspects identified as Kingsley Asuquo, 19, and Isaac Edet, 18, are now telling the police how they went about hatching the plot to rob their employer a lawyer, Prof Joseph Mbadugha.
Reports say the pair attacked their boss while he was working at his office on Johnvic Igbanogo Street, in the Lekki Phase 1 area of Lagos State.
According to CSP Chike Oti, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, the suspects who owned up to committing the crime said they robbed their boss alongside other suspects who are now at large.
CSP Oti said, “The command had on Saturday, October 13, 2018, around 5.30pm, received information from a credible source that some bandits held one Joseph Mbadugha hostage in his office at JohnVic Igbanogo Street, Lekki Phase One, Lagos, and that the armed men wore Strongcity Security Services uniform.
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“Based on the information, operatives from the Maroko Police Station and F-SARS Ikeja, jointly mobilised to the scene. On sighting the operatives, the hoodlums ran in different directions to avoid being arrested. But one of them, who gave his name as Isaac Edet, was nabbed at the scene.
“After interrogation, he led detectives to arrest his partner in crime, one Kingsley Asuquo.
Interestingly, both suspects are workers of Strongcity Security Services. They claimed that the victim did not pay their salaries as and when due, hence they planned with others at large to rob and even kill him if necessary.
“They succeeded in dispossessing the victim of a bag containing a laptop, a cash sum of N40,000, three cheque booklets, one iPhone 6. All these items were recovered from the suspects in the course of investigation.”
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