Grace Omachoko
The Police has arrested three female petrol attendants for allegedly defrauding their employer of N7.9m at Ilawe Ekiti in the Southwest Local Government Area of Ekiti State.
The Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Police Command, Dare Ogundare, listed the suspects as Olaiya Oluwaseyi, Ogbere Omotosho Seun, and Ajayi Funke.
Ogundare said, “Investigation revealed that the suspects were pump attendants in the same filling station where the fraudulent act occurred”.
Ogundare, who spoke in Ado Ekiti while parading the suspects and others arrested recently stated, “During interrogation, the suspects confessed to the alleged crime and mentioned that the money was shared among them and used to solve personal issues”.
The commissioner listed items recovered from the attendants to include two generators, two 32-inch plasma TVs, two washing machines, two standing fans, one big industrial sewing machine and one electric iron.
Others are one oven toaster machine, one DVD player, an empty carton of Smart 6 Infinix phone, one StarTime decoder, a set of upholstery chairs, a substance suspected to be a charm and a sum of N250,000.