Two
women, Grace Ekpo and Mfon Daniel from Itiam Ikot Ebia, Uyo LGA, alleged to be notorious robbers have confessed
to stealing clothes from other boutiques on the street and terrorizing
pedestrians and residents of Uyo. They were almost lynched if not for the
timely intervention of the police .The suspects were arrested last Thursday
after they stole from a boutique and were making their escape, when owner of
the store raised the alarm and passersby pursued the women and caught them.
"The two girls enter my shop on a pretence to buy from me but after
picking all the costly female hand bags, shoes, men gens, hand watches and
cloths worth forty-five thousand naira; instead of them to pay for what they
have bought, they sent me to go and buy them drinks. So, I went to buy drinks
for them at the nearby shop. As I returned, I met them making calls, and
immediately their operational Keke man who was on a standby to pick them came
and they went inside the Keke with all my cloths without paying. So, I tell
them to give me my cloths, they refused. So, I started shouting, help! Thief!
Thief! But the Keke man had already moved. As God would like it, luck ran out
on them, the people around and people using car pursued them and caught
them"
Confessing
to the crime, the women allegedly said
"When we entered
people shop, anything you sell we will pack the most costly ones; after which
we will asked you to get us water or send you on an errand, that will make us
run away with the goods without paying for it. We rob women in Keke, we pick
recharge card bags and anything that would fetch us quick money.’ The women are currently at the station at Barracks
Road Division, Akwa Ibom State.
