A man who was arrested by the police in Niger State for alleged robbery,
has denied the crime, saying he was being coerced by the police to make
a confessional statement.
25-year-old Kingsley Ibe was arrested
by the police Special Anti-Robbery Squad on the allegation that he
connived with other hoodlums to rob one Yusuf Isah of Gauraka, Sabo-Wuse
council.
The police claimed that Ibe and his gang members carted
away Gauraka’s properties including a 49-inch LG television, a 32-inch
Panasonic television, four wrist watches, one Techno handset, one
Samsung galaxy S3 handset, one Infinix Note 4 phone, jewelry, one
Jingcheng motorcycle and N200,000 cash.
But Ibe vehemently denied
being a robber, saying he would rather die than admit to a crime he did
not commit, insisting that the police knew the real culprits but
refused to go after them.
Punchng quoted him as saying: “I don’t
know why police are keeping me here. I am not an armed robber and they
cannot force me to be one. It is better I die for the offence I
committed than to die for what I know nothing about.
I am not a
thief and cannot admit to what I knew nothing about. The motorcycle they
accused me of stealing was not stolen by me, the police knew where it
was coming from."
He revealed that it was because he had no one
to speak for him that the police were plotting to implicate him. But the
police spokesperson in the state, Comfort Olawumi, said the suspect was
sighted by the complainant’s sibling, Usman Ithado, with the stolen
motorcycle, adding that he was given a chase before he was apprehended
by police operatives.
She added that the police recovered the
motorcycle from the suspect, noting that he would be charged to court as
soon as investigations were concluded.
cc: nairaland
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