A 26-year old man has made an open confession that he’s happy taking what doesn’t belong to him.
The man identified as Idowu Dosumu made this confessional statement when apprehended for stealing a motorcycle.
It all started on Tuesday, March 2012 in Igando area of Lagos when a commercial motorcyclist, popularly known as okada rushed out from a nearby food vendor and raised an alarm on discovering that his motorbike had developed sudden wings and flew from where it was parked.
While his uproar lasts, an unknown person was sighted speeding away on the same motorbike, which attracted the attention of other motorcyclists; they went after him and apprehended him. It took the efforts of the some policemen from the Igando Division to rescue the man from been killed by the visibly angry mobs.
On investigation, Dosumu, who has been arrested severally for the same crime admitted that he intended to sell the motorbike and use the money to earn a living.
In his confessional statement, he claimed to have tried his hands on other businesses but did not succeed and therefore finds ready solace in stealing.
His words: “ I am an electrician by profession. But the business got so bad that money was not forth coming. Then , I had to take to stealing because that is the only thing I am comfortable with.
“Yes , I have been arrested before and have been sent to jail say, about three times. I was sent to jail when I broke into somebody’s house and I was caught and also when I snatched a motorcycle. But I can not remember the offence I committed the third time.
However, any time I come out of prison, poverty stares me again in the face and I will be left with no other choice than yield to the temptation of doing what I know how to do best. I went back to robbery because there is no other thing I can do again in my life”.
“ I can not tell. But the only thing I know is that I feel comfortable with what I am doing. I wanted to steal the motorcycle and sell so as to use the money to eat and take care of other things”
“ I do not think I can leave stealing.
So the only solution for me is to be kept in jail for a very long time so that I will not go back to stealing again”.
Dosumu was latter charged to court where he frankly told the presiding Magistrate at the Ejigbo magistrate court, Mrs M.B Folami to grant him maximum jail term to avoid the temptation of committing the same offence.
He was latter sentenced to one-year imprisonment with hard labour after he pleaded guilty as charged..
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