A 22-year-old serial burglar,
David Ekwe, was charged to
Omi
Adio Magistrates' Court on
Monday,
December 2, the second time in
six days,
after he was caught at Ile-Titun
area of
Ibadan with a plasma TV he
allegedly
stole from a house he burgled.
Information gathered had it that
residents
of the area had lodged a
complaint at Eleyele
police station that burglars
usually invaded
their houses between the hours
of 9a.m.
and 4p.m. when they would
have gone out
to their offices or shops.
The Divisional Police Officer,
Deputy
Superintendent of Police
Olawole Ayoola,
reportedly held a meeting with
the head and
members of the community,
after which he
deployed plain-clothes police
detectives in
the area.
The move paid off on Friday,
November 29
when a boy was sighted
loitering. A trap
was reportedly set for him and
not quite
long, he was seen coming from
a street with
a plasma TV in its box. When
apprehended,
Ekwe confessed to have
burgled a house
and when he took policemen to
the house,
it was discovered that not a
single member
of the household was around.
Ekwe further revealed that his
gang had
about four members, with one
of them
already in prison while others
were still
working in other parts of the
city.
Immediately he was brought to
the station,
policemen recognised him as
the suspect
that was charged to court on
November 26
for the same crime. He was
said to have
pleaded guilty at the court,
which made the
magistrate not to waste time
on his case. He
was said to have sentenced the
accused to
one year imprisonment with an
option of
N10,000 fine.
Ironically, the complainant in
the case was
reported to have assisted the
convict in
paying the fine the following
day, which
aided his release from prison
custody on
November 27. He was caught
again 48
hours after.
Ekwe, when taken before the
same
magistrate last Tuesday, was
remanded in
prison custody and his case
adjourned till
December 16.
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