Police in Lagos State has arrested two security guards, Kingsley Okon Asuquo, 19 and Isaac Edet, 18, assigned to guard a Lagos lawyer, Prof. McCarty Mbadugha, from Strongcity Security Services who ended up attacking and robbing the same man that hired them for protective services.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police command, Mr. Chike Oti, the command had on October 13, 2018, at about 1730hrs, received information from a credible source that armed bandits held one Barrister Joseph Mbadugha aka Prof McCarty Mbadugha, hostage in his office at JohnVic Igbanogo Street, Lekki Phase one, Lagos and that the armed men were seen wearing Strongcity Security Services uniform.
Based on the information, operatives from Maroko Police Station and FSARS Ikeja, jointly mobilised to the scene.
On sighting the operatives, the hoodlums ran in different directions to avoid being arrested but one of them, who gave his name as Isaac Edet, was nabbed at the scene.
During interrogation, he mentioned and led detectives to arrest his partner in crime, one Kingsley Asuquo.
Interestingly, both suspects are staff of Strongcity Security Services attached to guard the victim.
They claimed the victim does not pay their salary as and when due, hence they planned with others at large to rob him and even kill him if necessary.
They succeeded in dispossessing the victim of a bag containing laptop computer, cash sum of forty thousand Naira (N40, 000.00), three cheque booklets and one iPhone-6, all of which were recovered from the suspects in the course of investigation.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi has directed the head of the command’s Intelligence Unit to fish out the suspects at large for prosecution.
The command hoped that this press release halts the rumour making the rounds on the social media that the lawyer was attacked by unknown assailants.
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