The Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos
has arrested a set of identical twins for robbing a factory belonging to
Reckitt Benckiser, producers of Dettol.
Police authorities said
that the duo, Taiye and Kehinde Balogun, were welders and were hired by
a robbery gang to break into the firm’s warehouse in May last year.
The robbery gang, it was learnt, robbed the company of soap noodles and chemicals worth N17m.
It was learnt that after the robbery,
SARS detectives launched an investigation into the case and the prime
suspects were arrested in February.
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The suspects were said to have implicated the twins who were subsequently arrested.
The twins, who are both 27-years-old said that they were not aware that they were being hired for a robbery operation.
Kehinde said, “Around May last year, we
were called by one guy known as Yankee who lives near our workshop in
Agbara. He took us to meet one Deji.
“Deji claimed to be a storekeeper at the
factory, saying he had misplaced his key. He took us to the warehouse
and said we should break the locks open.
“After breaking the locks, they told us
to help them load the chemicals into some trucks. They said they were
under instructions to transfer the cartons to another warehouse.
“After helping them load the goods, we were given N10,000 each.”
Detectives said that investigations revealed that the twins were aware that they were engaged in a robbery operation.
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