Domestic worker robs Japanese boss at gunpoint in Lagos

Detectives at the Lagos State Police Command Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba have apprehended a domestic worker who conspired with another to rob his employer, Yasushi Murata, a Japanese, and an expatriate employee of Honda Automobile West Africa Limited, but resident at Chris Ali Street, Abacha Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos.

This development was made known on Thursday by the spokesman of the Command, Adekunle Ajisebutu, in a statement.

Ajisebutu said on February 1, 2022 at about 11pm, the duo of Sossougueto Theodore, 50, a domestic worker to the victim, and Oluwasegun Olusoji, a neighbour, 35, conspired together and broke into the victim’s residence.

They forced him to transfer N1 million into the account of Olusoji.

After, torturing and violently assaulting the victim, the robbers, who were masked, armed with a gun and an axe, made away with his ATM card.

They coerced him to disclose his PIN.

A few days after the robbery, the suspects, using the ATM, Ajisebutu said, unlawfully and fraudulently withdrew N2,729,850 from Murata’s bank account.

Theodore and Olusoji, according to the Command’s spokesman, feared for their arrest and in order to cover up the criminal act, threatened to kill the victim if he failed to leave the country or ever disclosed what happened to anyone.

Unperturbed by the threat but pained by the injuries sustained, Murata after recovering from the trauma, reported the robbery through a petition to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti.

Consequent upon the receipt of the petition, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Adegoke Fayoade, immediately assigned seasoned detectives to investigate the incident.

Painstaking investigation led to the arrest of the perpetrators.

Upon interrogation, Olusoji confessed to the crime and gave a vivid account of how the operation was jointly carried out.

Following the conclusion of investigation, the Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, has directed that the case should be charged to court.

The CP admonished employers to always carry out thorough background check on their domestic staff before employing them and be wary of criminal neighbours.