By: Tonebsky Nesta
At least 8 different cases of burglary have been reported in adjourning settlements of Ugbuwangue community and Ogunu road in Warri in the last one month, Fresh Angle can authoritatively report.
Fresh Angle investigation reveals that the burglars who usually carry out their nefarious activities at night in offices and shops as well as on Sundays during the hours of church services in residential houses around the Ugbuwangue – Ogunu link road are allegedly using the yet to be completed Delta State government estate along the NPA Expressway as hideout.
One of the victims (names withheld) who spoke to Fresh Angle exclusively, said that one of the suspects that stood in the front of a provision shop along Ogunu road a week after it was burgled allegedly ran to an illegally occupied government estate at Ugbuwangue via an unconventional route when accosted to explain what he was doing in front of the provision shop by the owner. The source who conducted Fresh Angle through the illegal estate route to the estate, further stated that if immediate security measures are not taken to tackle the security situation headlong, it might degenerate to more dangerous dimension. He further alleged that an indigene of the host community to the estate collects upward of three thousand naira to accommodate the illegal occupants.
One of the victims of the shop burgled along Ogunu road, Mrs. Agatha Tietie, told Fresh Angle News crew that the burglars broke into her shop in the night of Wednesday September 29 and carted away provisions. She also revealed that it wasn’t the first time burglars have raided the area. According to her, cash totalling N950,000.00 was stolen in a nearby company, Arcbase International Company Limited the first time the burglars came calling, while the last raid which is the third in recent time saw the criminals going away with safety boots, expensive cables and filing machines. She further told Fresh Angle that the owner of the company identified simply as Richard had in the time past reported the issue to the police and the youth leaders of both Ogunu and Ugbuwangue communities, without any positive result. The burglars who operate ceaselessly in similar fashion on the night of September 13 burgled a building accommodating Fresh Angle Newspaper and other business concerns.
They broke one of the corridors ceiling and gained access to an interior decoration shop and a laundry office. While they stole a Dell laptop computer, fabrics and goods worth N50,000.00 at the interior decoration shop belonging to one Sarah Edema, the burglars carted away a bag containing customers’ clothes and N30,000.00 cash at the laundry office despite the presence of a security man at the premises.
Fresh Angle can report that despite these continuous raids, no visible arrangement is being put in place by residents of the area to check the ugly trend.
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