One of the drivers of the popular Nigerian phone retail outlet, Slot Nigeria Limited, has been arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command over the diversion of N5.95 million worth of laptops, mobile phones and its accessories, just as it assisted in the recovery of N4,654,224 worth of goods from the suspect.
The suspect, Olumide Babajide, 42,
from Kwara State, was tracked and arrested in Kaduna State, where he diverted
the goods to after taking them from the Slot Nigeria Office based in Computer
Village, Ikeja, Lagos.
The driver, who was engaged in
March, 2017, by the company, was directed to move the consignment to Slot
Outlet in Victoria Island, Lagos in May 2, 2017, when the incident happened.
According to Olumide, a diploma in
computer science holder, “I took the good from Slot’s outlet in Ikeja. I was to
deliver it to another outlet in Victoria Island, Lagos, but instead I took the
goods to Pam-Pam Hotel, Ikeja, while I returned the company’s Hilux car to R
& S hotel, where we normally park the company’s vehicles.
This wasn’t the first time I would
be moving laptops, mobile phones and their accessories from one outlet to the
other. Since I joined the company in March and I was assigned the job of a
delivery man, it had been my idea to divert the goods and abscond.”
He continued, “as soon as it was
5:00 p.m. that very day, I took a drop from the hotel with the consignment to
Ejigbo, where I boarded a Kaduna bound bus.
Before I got to Kaduna, I already
contacted one of the buyers. She bought N1.4 million worth of phones, laptops
and phone accessories while I also sold in unit to some other buyers as well.”
Sources disclosed that the suspect
at Kaduna dashed out about 10 mobiles to passers-by. He also gave out two
phones to a new mistress while he bought a Peugeot 206, 1999 model with new
registration number DKA 859 KA from the proceeds of his sales for N912, 000:00.
The father of three was also
reported to have procured a 32 inch Samsung LCD for N62, 000:00 while lodging
in a hotel abandoning his wife and children in the Kaduna.
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