A phone thief who was captured in a viral CCTV footage currently circulating on the internet has disclosed that he was propelled to steal an iPhone 8S in a retail outlet in Ikeja because of the need to pay his school fees.
The
suspect, Timilehin Olaniyi, who was captured in a trending CCTV footage
disclosed that he was desperate to pay his school tuition fee of
N80,000, hence he stole the iPhone 8S.
Olaniyi, a
200 level student of DS Adegbenro ICT College, Ogun State noted that he
was in Computer Village, Ikeja on 16th February, 2018 in the morning to
dispose off an iPhone 5s given to him by his course mate to enable him
raise money for his school fees.
The suspect who
was tracked and arrested in Wasimi, Ogun State by the Decoy Team of
Rapid Response Squad said “I was in Lagos on the invitation of a close
friend. He is aware that I was struggling to pay my school fees, so he
gave me an iphone 5s to sell in order to raise money.
“So
I went to Computer Village to sell the phone. When I entered the phone
store, my plan was to know the price of Iphone 7s but it was not
available. I noticed that one of the attendants went out leaving behind
an Iphone 8s on the table.
I don’t know what came
over me. I monitored the other attendant and I went away with the
phone. I never knew I was captured by the CCTV camera. I sold that
iphone 5s to pay my tuition fee while I started using the iphone 8s”, he
stated.
He continued “it was about the second day
that the friend I was squatting with sent me packing from his house over
a CCTV footage circulating on the internet of a phone thief. He said I
was the one.
Source stated that Olaniyi failed to
open up to his elder brother who saw him spotting a T-shirt he bought
for him in the video. The brother He brother had gone to engage the
services of a lawyer for defamation.
The suspect was arrested few days later in Wasimi, Ogun State.
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