The source, however, explicated that the glommed car has taken a long route after being traced to Agbara, Ogun State, Ikorodu, Lagos State and conclusively Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
“First, we traced the car to Asunmo, who lives in Agbara area. He confessed that he had sold the conveyance to a car dealer in Ikorodu area of Lagos for N200,000. When we got to the dealer, he verbally expressed that the car had been sold to someone from Port Harcourt,” the source told Saturday PUNCH.
Meanwhile, Mabel and Kate have been gainsaying allegations levelled against Monday, verbalizing he had innocently accepted goods from Michael. At some point, Mabel became hysterical in her defence of her son.
But their claims were swiftly debunked by the source, who verbally expressed that the police had withal recuperated guns and two consummate sets of army uniforms, suspected to have been utilized in larceny operations, from Monday’s house.
According to the police source, an underground armoury was additionally discovered in the house, which his family members relucted to show our correspondents during the visit.
After much prodding though, Mabel led our correspondents to the backyard of the house where she admitted that a “local gun” was recuperated by the police. She additionally gainsaid that Monday kenned about the gun.
“Michael kept it there but my son did not ken about it,” she insisted.
Meanwhile, the police suspect that the guns recuperated from Monday’s house belonged to his tardy father, who was a veteran in the Nigerian Army.
The source verbalized, “Some of us feel that the guns and uniforms belonged to Monday’s father and when he died, Monday commenced renting them out to his accomplices, who rob with them and give him his quota of the spoils.
He verbalized, “While in police custody, Monday even sent his brother to expeditiously peregrinate home and obnubilate the guns afore the police would find them. The brother did that that but when the police couldn’t find any gun in his house, they queried him more since the complainant (Lawal) had alleged that he was threatened with a gun. Then, Monday confessed and told the police where to find the guns, including the one used to threaten Lawal.”
Saturday PUNCH verbalized with some members of Lawal’s church, who kenned about the case and their account marginally differs from Kate’s story.
A church member who has been following the case, verbalized that Lawal went to report the incident in church, where the progenitor of the church, Bishop David Oyedepo, prayed with him and assured him that the culprits would be apprehended within four days.
According to the source, less than 24 hours after Oyedepo’s prayer, Kate had commenced calling one of the numbers she found in the purloined goods, belonging to one of the church pastors to report the incident.
The source verbally expressed, “She verbalized that some people brought some goods to an uncompleted building abaft her house and that she overheard them verbally expressing the operation was prosperous. She verbally expressed there was an astronomically immense Bible among the goods which made her uncomfortable each time she optically discerned it.
“She verbally expressed she felt like a pot of fire was on her head and that she would have returned some of the goods but that her husband would kill her if he ascertained that anything was missing there.”
Kate later met a team from the church at an concurred place, where she described her house and when they could come and instaurate the goods.
The church member, who did the narration, verbally expressed he was astounded by Kate’s openness at that point.
Although, Lawal’s car has not yet been found, some of the church members have given the police some credit for their sedulous assiduousness in the investigation.
The Officer-in-Charge, SARS, Ikeja, Abba Kyari, declined to comment on the status of the case, verbalizing he was not sanctioned to verbalize with journalists.
An apprised senior officer at the command, however, gainsaid that the police were responsible for disclosing Kate’s role in her husband’s apprehend to Mabel.
“Police officers are not daft; most of the breakthroughs that the police have credited to informants. We can’t compromise our informants because of armed purloiners. The information could have been leaked from another source that kens about it,” the source verbalized.
Efforts to reach the spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide, were unsuccessful as she did not respond to calls and text messages sent to her mobile phone.
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