Undergrad siblings wear suits, binds to ransack Lagos walkers –Police

Two siblings are right now being held in an unusual instance of theft, in which they were said to dress like corporate office specialists to burglarize ladies at the end of work in Lagos.

The siblings, Ikenna and Chinedu Onukwo, who are 28 and 23 years of age separately, asserted to be understudies of the North American University in Benin Republic.
As per the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, the kin worked their theft operations like a family business.

He said amid the parade of the suspects that their usual way of doing things separates them from consistent burglars in light of the fact that they spruced up like corporate office specialists.

The vehicle, in which the siblings affirmed worked, a Lexus 300, has a place with their mom.

"They would both spruce up corporately in suits as though they were simply shutting from an office. They drove around Victoria Island and Ikoyi and offered to give female office specialists who were simply shutting from work a ride. We trust that their mom was likewise included. Like I said, this is a family business," Owoseni said.

Saturday NEWS learnt that when the suspects supposedly gave clueless women shutting from work a ride, the senior sibling would drive while the sibling would sit in the traveler seat.

Owoseni told columnists that the suspects would later tell their casualties that they had boarded the wrong auto and confiscated them of their resources.

It was charged the kin would now and again take their casualties to an ATM and constrain them to pull back cash.

The police supervisor said a few casualties got assaulted in the process while the siblings mercilessly beat casualties who set out to give the wrong ATM PIN.

As per the police magistrate, despite the fact that numerous casualties never reported the assault, the most recent casualty summoned the bravery to answer to the police over 48 hours after the occurrence.

Saturday NEWS learnt that the casualty luckily remembered the enlistment number of the vehicle and through the joint effort of the Federal Road Safety Corps, the police followed a location connected to the number plate to a house at Surulere, where the suspects were grabbed.

Amid examination, the police said it found in regards to five past casualties, who all recognized the suspects.

An examining cop said the associates were selected with a personality parade by every one of the casualties.

At the point when our reporter talked with the siblings, they knowing denied that they knew anything about what they had been blamed for.

Ikenna said, "All these aren't right affirmations. We don't burglarize anybody. We are only understudies from the North American University, it is a wrong claim. We don't know anything they are discussing.

"At to begin with, they captured my sibling and said he was mindful alongside some different folks. Presently they say I am included, I don't know anything.

"I don't have the foggiest idea about the casualties, and I have never seen them. I can't clarify how they were all ready to recognize us."

Chinedu, who likewise denied the affirmation, said when the police captured him, they just let him know they were searching for his senior sibling.

He clarified that he intentionally tailed them to the police headquarters just for the casualties to distinguish him as one of the suspects who victimized them

Chinedu, who guaranteed to be a 300 level Computer Science understudy of the North American University, said, "I asked how everything happened since I knew nothing and inquired as to whether they remembered me and they pointed at me.

"I don't ransack individuals, even the vehicle they are discussing has a place with my mom. I don't drive it around. At the point when my sibling came over, the same individuals additionally recognized him.

"They said the individual who was driving the vehicle when they were ransacked had whiskers. Take a gander at my sibling; does he have facial hair like the casualties asserted? It is a false affirmation.

"I can't clarify how they distinguished our number plate. My sibling more often than not drives the vehicle. The main time I drove my mom's auto was this last Friday."

Owoseni said the suspects would be charged to court soo