CCTV camera shows Alhaji, friend stealing a car....SEE PHOTO

Firstclass newsline learnt that 54-year-old Adeleke and Soyoye, 38,
were picked up by the CCTV in front of a hotel on Allen Avenue, Ikeja,
where the theft reportedly took place.
Firstclass newsline gathered that the duo, after the theft, allegedly
sold the car, a Toyota Corolla, in the Ile Epo, Iyana Ipaja area for
N400,000.
The matter was said to have been reported by the victim to the Area F
Command, Ikeja. It was later transferred to the state Special
Anti-Robbery Squad.
Firstclass newsline learnt that with the help of the CCTV footage,
which showed the faces of the suspects, Adeleke and Soyoye were
arrested on Sunday, April 19, 2015.
It was gathered that the police had recovered the stolen vehicle and
the operational vehicle ─ a jeep ─ allegedly used by the duo.
Speaking with firstclass newsline, Adeleke, from Ede, Osun State, said
he was about to enter the mosque for the evening prayer when the
police arrested him.
He said, "I worked as a commercial driver. I was plying Obalende and
Oshodi areas. I went to Mecca for pilgrimage about three years ago. I
had always been a responsible man until last year. I met Lukman
(Soyoye) last year and we became friends.
"In November last year, we both went to a restaurant on Allen Avenue
around 7pm and we drank into the night. Around 2am, we both entered
the vehicle I brought, and left. We saw the vehicle parked in front of
the hotel, and everywhere was empty. So, I forced the door open and we
stole it. I drove the stolen car, while Lukman drove the car we
brought.
"I had even sold the car and forgotten about it. Then, in April, I
went to a mosque in the Ikeja area to pray and suddenly as I alighted
from my car, policemen rounded me up. I was told that it was the
camera in the hotel that picked my face."
Soyoye, an indigene of Abeokuta, Osun State, said Adeleke had lied to
him that they were going to Allen Avenue to meet someone who owed him
(Adeleke) some money and refused to pay back.
Soyoye, married with six children, said he was given N80,000 after the
car was sold.
He said, "I am an Aluminum fabricator, and I stayed in the Ifelodun,
Dopemu area of Lagos. I met Alhaji (Adeleke) sometime last year. I
used to change the glass of his bus, and that was how we met. He
called me on the phone that day and said one of his friends owed him
and he was going to forcefully collect his money.
"We drank till that dawn. It was when he forcefully opened the vehicle
that I realised that we came to steal a car. I was the one who drove
the car we brought.
"I was given N80,000 after the car was sold. I did not know how he
sold it. He brought it to the Dopemu underbridge. I used the money to
pay my children's school fees. It was a week after Alhaji was arrested
that I was caught."
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu,
confirmed the arrest of the suspects, adding that investigations were
ongoing.
Firstclassnewsline.net