I took to burglary to pay my sweetheart's bride price — Suspect

A 34 year old vegetable vender, Chukuma Okoro, stunned individuals from people in general who saw his parade nearby different infamous equipped theft suspects at the state police summon home office, in Akure, the Ondo State capital when he admitted that the groups of his significant other pushed him into outfitted burglary.

Okoro additionally clarified that the group of his better half were asking for N300,000 as endowment before he would have add up to access to their little girl. He said that as a vegetables vender the main choice left for him was to search for an easy route since he cherishes the woman and needs her at all cost.

[•Okoro: Went into burglary to pay dowry]

•Okoro: Went into burglary to pay settlement

He said that his endeavors to fulfill his significant other and her family pushed him to burglary. "I needed to pay my significant other's settlement however I don't have the N300,000 requested by her family.

Request on lady of the hour cost

"It is my significant other and her family that pushed me into it, I have never stolen in my life, this is the first run through. She fled from my home three weeks prior and has been beseeching me that she needs to return. Since I cherish her so much and don't need her family to offer her to another man that was the reason I began searching for cash by all way to pay her endowment with the goal that she could return to my home.

"Its absolutely impossible I can get that N300,000 to pay her settlement, that was the reason I endeavored to victimize and this is the first occasion when I will do it."

He disclosed to Vanguard that his companions and neighbors made joke of him when his better half went out due to his failure to take care of their demand on lady of the hour cost.

Okoro said he was edgy to have her back and in an offer to disgrace his entertainers he picked equipped burglary which as indicated by him was the least demanding methods for getting cash in that condition. Vanguard accumulated that on the day he was captured, Okoro trailed a salesgirl of a lager conveyance organization situated at Adegbola in the city who was taking N550,000 continues of the day's deals to the bank. He was said to have trailed the salesgirl of the lager appropriation organization on Okada before assaulting her.

It was likewise accumulated that while battling with the salesgirl to gather the cash, the suspect was pushed off the Okada and he fell after which he shot at the casualty twice before he was overwhelmed and captured by sympathizers.

Police source said that the salesgirl was blessed that the gun declined to discharge any of the five live projectiles in it before sympathizers jumped on him and beat him beat up.

Asked how he knew the salesgirl he burglarized was taking that volume of cash to the bank, Okoro said that he had an inside sources.

He stated, "I got all the data I required. I was advised the sum to be taken to the bank, when the salesgirl would leave the workplace, the course she wouild take and the bank she was making a beeline for.

"So I chose to draw in an Okada rider for a charge and he stopped where we could see the salesgirl when she cleared out the workplace and when it was protected I attempted to grab the pack containing the cash from her. In any case, the young lady was brave to the point that while I attempted to grab the sack she drove me off the Okada causing me and the Okada rider to fall.

"I drew out a gun from my pocket and discharged two shots yet the weapon declined to remove the projectiles. The Okada man at that point fled the scene and I ended up noticeably vulnerable which made a few young people and others around the zone to overwhelm me and I was captured."

Auspicious mediation of policemen allegedly spared Okoro from being singed alive by a few young people who had raced to a close-by vulcanizer to get utilized tires.

Parading the suspect, the state police order picture creator, Femi Joseph, said that a gun and five live carriages were found on Okoro when he was captured. Joseph stated, "Okoro assaulted a business young lady who was setting off to the bank to store N500,000. As he was attempting to gather the cash from her, the young lady raised the alert that pulled in the passers by who captured him."

The police representative said the suspect would soon be charged to court similarly as he guaranteed that the summon would not yield in the battle against violations and culpability in the state.