Two suspected burglars, Ifendi Eke and Nwokocha Ndukwe, who were arrested by police operatives attached to the Abiriba Division in Abia State, have pleaded for mercy, claiming that they were pushed into robbery by hunger.
A police source told Southern City News that the suspects, said to be indigenes of Abiriba, were nabbed following a tip-off after some cases of burglary and stealing in the community.
The source added that in the course of police investigation, a middleman, identified as Arua Agbai, who was aiding the suspects in selling their loots, was also arrested.
Items recovered from the suspects included some bags, electronic gadgets and empty cartons of plasma television carted away from the house of one Agbara Ashiegbu, a businessman based in Cameroon.
Confessing to the crime, Ndukwe said it was hunger and the devil that led them into the crimes, while Agbai said he was not aware that the plasma television sold to him by the suspects was stolen.
He said, “I don’t know anything about these stolen items. It was one of the suspects, now at large, that brought the television to me to buy; it was when I opened the carton that I saw the receipts of the original owner before I sold it to another person.”
Meanwhile, another suspected burglar, Frank Egure, has also been arrested by police operatives following a distress call from one Azubuike, who reported that his house was under siege by suspected hoodlums.
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