A burglar was nabbed by the owner of the house as he was cooling off with a cold can of soft drink after the stress of gathering the belongings of the owner of the house for final movement.
A 28-year-old burglary suspect, Olamilekan Olaoluwa, has been arrested by policemen from the Iponri division after breaking into a house in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State.
The Kwara State indigene was said to have broken into a two-bedroomed flat on Brickfield Road on Sunday around 2pm, while the occupant was away.
Olaoluwa, a secondary school dropout, removed a Plasma TV from the wall where it was hung and packed the clothes, wristwatches and a handset of his victim. Not done, he proceeded to the kitchen and opened the fridge where he picked a can of malt to refresh himself.
He was still entertaining himself when the owner of the apartment came in and found the suspect with the loot. She was said to have raised the alarm, drawing the attention of residents who beat up the suspect before handing him over to the police.
Olaoluwa, who claimed to have spent six years to train as a plumber, said he did not have a job or a place of abode. He said he broke into his victim’s house because the gate was left open.
He said:
“I also took the handset and the TV’s remote control. I opened the fridge and took a can of malt and drank it. I was going downstairs when I saw the woman. She asked who I was and what I was doing in her house.
“I asked her not to shout, but she shouted and people came inside the house.”
His case is already being deliberated on in the court as he is cooling his heels in a jail cell.