A 24-year-old theft suspect arrested in Delta State, Chinagorom Emmanuel, has confessed that he went into theft to allow him to boost cash and provides his late mom a befitting burial.
In line with Punch, the suspect made the confession after he was arrested by males of Agbor Gha-Ihun Vigilante Group in Agbor, Ika South Native Authorities Space of the state.
Emmanuel, who hails from Abia State, allegedly specialised in stealing telephones and different priceless objects in Agbor and different communities.
Talking to newsmen, the suspect mentioned he’s {an electrical} technician however resorted to stealing to offer his mom whose physique is mendacity within the mortuary, a befitting burial as the primary son.
“I enter folks’s outlets pretending to purchase an merchandise. However I purpose to steal priceless objects like telephones. That is my first time in Agbor, and I met my waterloo in one among my sufferer’s outlets,” he mentioned.
The suspect additional mentioned he selected crime since he has no person to assist him.
Emmanuel additionally disclosed that he offers with a northerner primarily based in Asaba, who buys the stolen telephones.
Pleading for forgiveness, the suspect admitted that his legal actions had disgraced him.
Reacting to the arrest, the Chairman of Agbor Gha-Ihun Vigilante, Comrade Monday Kiyem, mentioned with their safety outfit, it’s the finish of the street for Emmanuel’s criminality as a result of they do not compromise crime.
He mentioned criminals when caught will probably be made to face the wrath of the regulation for inflicting folks ache over their stolen items.
“Emmanuel is within the enterprise of stealing telephones. Now we have discovered many sim playing cards and telephones in his possession and plenty of of his victims we succeeded in calling complained that their telephones have been stolen,” Kiyem said.
“A few of their Agbor victims have come to our workplace to determine their telephones and narrated how Emmanuel got here to their outlets pretending to purchase an merchandise and stole their telephones. I’ll hand Emmanuel over to the police for additional investigation and convey his fleeing gang members to guide,”