“I Don’t Know What Came Over Me” – Thief Caught In Computer Village Pleads For Help

“I Don’t Know What Came Over Me” – Thief Caught In Computer Village Pleads For Help

A young boy who was caught in computer village Lagos by the CCTV camera stealing a phone has come to say he needed to pay his school fees.

He confessed he stole the Iphone 8s in other to find means of paying his school fees as he was desperate to pay his pending fee of 80,000 naira.

“I was in Lagos on the invitation of a close friend. He is aware that I was struggling to pay my school fees, so he gave me an iphone 5s to sell in order to raise money.

“So I went to Computer Village to sell the phone. When I entered the phone store, my plan was to know the price of Iphone 7s but it was not available.

I noticed that one of the attendants went out leaving behind an Iphone 8s on the table.

I don’t know what came over me. I monitored the other attendant and I went away with the phone. I never knew I was captured by the CCTV camera. I sold that iphone 5s to pay my tuition fee while I started using the iphone 8s”, he stated.

He continued

“it was about the second day that the friend I was squatting with sent me packing from his house over a CCTV footage circulating on the internet of a phone thief. He said I was the one.

Source stated that Olaniyi failed to open up to his elder brother who saw him spotting a T-shirt he bought for him in the video.The brother  had gone to engage the services of a lawyer for defamation.

The suspect was arrested few days later in Wasimi, Ogun State.