I Wanted To Use My Client’s P*nt For Money Ritu*l – Vulcanizer
CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
A 22-year-old vulcanizer, Dele Ope, who stole his client’s pant, has confessed to the Police in Ogun State that he wanted to use the pant for money rituals in order to become rich.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspect, Ope, made the confession after he was arrested by the Police operatives from Ogun State Command, who equally recovered the pant from him as exhibit.
This was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Sunday, saying the suspect was arrested following a report by a woman (name withheld), who reported at Warewa Division of the State Police Command that she discovered that her car tyre had been deflated when she wanted to go out. The woman contacted the suspect, who is a vulcanizer, to fix the tyre in her house while her pant hung on a rope outside.
“After he had fixed the tyre and left, she discovered that her pant, which was spread on a rope within the compound was missing”.
“Since the vulcaniser was the only person who came to the compound, she went round in search of him but he was nowhere to be found”
“Upon the report, the DPO Warewa Division, SP Folake Afeniforo, detailed detectives to the area where the suspect was traced and arrested.”
“His house was quickly searched and the woman’s pant was recovered there.”
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to have stolen the pant with the intention of taking it to a herbalist for money ritual” DSP Oyeyemi said.
Oyeyemi added that the Commissioner of Police, CP Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered that the suspect be charged to Court as soon as investigation is concluded.