Judiciary & Court
Guards burgle boss’ home, steal N6m worth of cash, electronics
Abu and Isiaka
The suspects, Abu Abubakar and Hadi Isiaka, both indigenes of the same community from Kogi State, were employed through an agent, to work as day and night guards at the home of the GRA-based businessman, who frequently travels out of the country.
Isiaka, 30, had worked at the house for about two years before Abu was employed by their boss who did not know they were kinsmen.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that Abu, 24, was sent packing from the house less than four months after he started work on suspicion of his criminal nature.
The police said the landlord of the house travelled abroad with his family in December 2016 only to come back and realised that $2,000 he kept in his bedroom was gone.
In addition to that, part of the bundles of N200 and N100 notes kept in the room were also taken. .
But the case was not reported as the landlord decided he wanted to be sure of the actual thief before reporting to the police so the innocent ones out of his domestic staff would not suffer.
After trying in vain to determine how the house, which was locked up could have been accessed in his absence, he travelled again few months after with his family with the hope that the burglary was a one-off thing.
But this time, 2,000 Euro belonging to the landlady and the entire bundles of mint Nigerian notes which the family kept for social events were carted away.
Also stolen in the house were Apple Macbook, iPads and other valuables. Later, it was discovered that a hole barely enough for an adult’s head to pass through had been cut through the burglar-proof of one of the rooms in the house.
The police said the entire worth of mobile phones, perfumes and cash stolen on the two occasions amounted to N6m.
However, when Isiaka was questioned about how the house was burgled while he was working, he denied knowledge of it, but instead diverted suspicion to a former guard who was recalled to the house after Abu’s sack.
