Barely three weeks as a salesman in a private business establishment, the spirit of covetousness has led a young man into trouble for orchestrating the theft of 52 computer monitors from his office.
The suspect, Michael Daniel, 31, was picked by crack detectives of the Ogun State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Abeokuta following a complaint lodged by his employer.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that one Mrs. Titilayo Ero of Dorf Royal Events Centre in Asero, Abeokuta, the state capital, reported that she got to her store on September 30, 2018 and was shocked at the disappearance of fifty two computer monitors.
In Mrs. Ero’s account, the store was burgled, a development that piqued the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who gave a matching order to the detectives to fish out perpetrators of the nefarious act.
According to the PPRO, “The detectives swiftly moved into action and invited the salesman, who was barely three weeks old in the employment of the events Centre, and named one 23-year-old Smith Ajao, with whom they carried out the criminal act at night.
“The said Smith Ajao was traced to a hotel in Sango-Otta area of the state, where he was promptly arrested and thus led the detectives to Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos”, Oyeyemi stated, adding that forty-eight out of the stolen items had been recovered.
Meanwhile, according to the police image maker, CP Iliyasu had directed that the case be properly investigated and, on completion of investigation activities, the suspects should be charged to court.
The police boss was said to have consequently advised employers of labour to always painstakingly scrutinize their would-be employees before enlisting them into their workforce.