Lagos state police have arrested a 25-year-old high school dropout for allegedly stealing his mother’s car in Ibadan and trying to sell it in Lagos.
Police spokesman in the state, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the Nigerian News Agency (NAN) on Wednesday.
Hundeyin said the suspect, who was the eldest of the woman’s three children, was arrested by the Ijora Badiya police division in Lagos on Sunday when he had some car trouble.
He said the suspect, who allegedly stole around N500,000 from his mother earlier to play a gambling game popularly known as ‘Baba-Ijebu’, wanted to sell the car to play the same game he had never won.
The police spokesman said the suspect left Ibadan early Sunday morning with the car without his mother’s consent, stressing that while he was in Lagos around 9:00 a.m., the car suffered a fault and invited to a tow vehicle within the Ijora Badiya area.
“As they were driving, the driver of the tow vehicle observed that the movement of the body and the suspect’s arguing proved that the car was stolen.
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“The driver of the tow vehicle alerted the police in Ijora Badiya immediately. The police found them on the road; took the suspect and the vehicle to the police station for questioning.
“The suspect immediately confessed that the car belongs to his mother in Ibadan and that she brought it to Lagos to sell it.
“The police called his mother and asked her about the whereabouts of her son and her car. The mother said that she did not know the whereabouts of her son and her car.
“The police asked her if she had ordered her son to sell his car, but she said she never gave him that order,” Hundeyin said in the statement.
Therefore, the police asked him to go to Lagos to look for his car. (YAYA)