So many Nigerian didnt Believe filmmaker, Seun Egbegbe actually intended absconding with
nine iphones at Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos.
Even as Egbegbe has denied the story describing it as “laughable and better left in the court of public opinion
Saturday Beats
spoke to the owner of the shop, Kolawole Aleshinloye on telephone, he
said he was out of town but the matter was with the police.
My secretary has gone to
the police station upon invitation. Anything you want, just go to Area F
police command and ask for the IPO in charge.
My boy was injured because he was being
dragged by the car when they were trying to get away with the phones.
Egbegbe had never come to buy anything
from my store before now and I don’t know him. I did not see him because
I was not at the office but my staff attended to him. They were the one
that took him to the police station. I just showed up at the police
station but I am not an eye witness.
I have never been involved in a robbery
or theft case and sincerely I don’t know what to do and that is why the
police is handling everything. I don’t have the time to handle this
type of case. As I speak with you, I am about travelling out of the
country. I missed my flight yesterday because of this issue
But then, a shop owner who identified
himself as Onyeka, said he witnessed what happened since his shop is
directly opposite the scene of the incident. Onyeka described Egbegbe as a ‘bloody liar’ for denying that he was involved in the theft.
I was around when it happened and the
man cannot deny it. It happened and the man stole the phones.
If it did
not happen, why did he have a bloodied mouth? Those guys outside were
the ones that beat him but they did not beat him up to stupor, they just
‘touched him small’. At about 11am, the man came to the store claiming
that he wanted to buy some phones.
He had spoken to the sales girl but
all of a sudden, he told them to pack the phones for him and that he
would give them the money in his vehicle. As he got to his vehicle, he
put the phones in the car and instead of him to bring out the money; he
entered the vehicle which was already in motion. He was not alone in the
car.
The sales rep had to raise the alarm
that the man was leaving with the goods. An SUV that was in front of his
car had to stop to ensure that he did not run away with the phones and
that was how they caught up with him and those with him in the vehicle.
If the SUV was not there, they would have absconded with the phones
because the road was very free. He was already inside the car and the
car was in motion. I think there were about two other people in the car
with him. The vehicle was in motion and ready to zoom off, yet he
claimed that he wanted to give someone money. The police came around and
he was handed over to them,” Onyeka said.
Another shop owner who didn’t want his
name in print, insisted he saw how Egbegbe rushed to his car with the
phones and would have zoomed off.
This guy is a liar. So is he saying he
had over N2m in his car and he was going to bring the money from the
car? Why didn’t he bring the money when he entered the shop or even tell
the shop attendant to hold the phones while he got the money? The guy
really wanted to outsmart the shop attendant but his luck ran out. That
way why we beat him silly,” he said.
Meanwhile, in a release he pushed out
after the incident, Egbegbe said, “To say the least, the news did not
only grossly misinform unsuspecting public; it also portrays traces of
campaign of calumny by some mercenary hirelings hell bent on destroying
my name, for reasons best known to them.
“Having read with keen interest the
completely self-serving spirited attempt to destroy my person, it has
become imperative and timely that a rejoinder is written to state the
fact clearly. I want to state here categorically and emphatically that
though I was at Computer Village to address some issues, I was never
arrested for stealing 10 iphone 7, as stated by the writer of the story,
the matter has since been resolved by the Nigeria Police; and the issue
of me stealing phone is devilish.”
Meanwhile in a telephone conversation
with Egbegbe’s publicist, Saturday Beats learnt that he was arrainged on
Thursday at a the Magistrate Court in Ikeja on a one count charge of
theft but he has since met his one million naira bail condition. His
publicist further emphasised that Egbge is not in prison but resting
somewhere in Ikeja, Lagos.
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