The Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos have arrested a set of identical twin brothers after they were accused of robbing a factory belonging to Reckitt Benckiser, producers of Dettol.
Taiye and Kehinde Balogun, who were both welders were hired by a robbery gang to break into the firm’s warehouse in May last year. They were said to carted away goods like soap, noodles and chemicals worth N17m.
The identical twins, Taiye and Kehinde Balogun
An investigation into the case was launched by SARS and the prime suspects were arrested in February. The 27-year-old twins were arrested after the suspects implicated them.
According to the twins, they did not know they were being hired for a robbery operation.
Kehinde said, “Around May last year, we were called by one guy known as Yankee who lives near our workshop in Agbara. He took us to meet one Deji. He claimed to be a storekeeper at the factory, saying he had misplaced his key and took us to the warehouse where he asked us to break the locks open.
“After breaking the locks, they told us to help them load the chemicals into some trucks. They said they were under instructions to transfer the cartons to another warehouse. After helping them load the goods, we were given N10,000 each.”
Detectives, however, countered the twins claims, saying that investigations revealed that they were aware that they were engaged in a robbery operation.
A policeman said, “When we made initial arrest, the twins claimed they were pawns in the operation and knew little, but when we interrogated the other suspects, they said the twins were just as guilty. One of the suspects told us that initially, the twins were not aware but when they told the twins about the plan, they swore to an oath and vowed to cooperate.”
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