By Desire Emmanuel
A chef who laced the food of his boss and other family members as well as security men in the man’s house with drugs and made away with cash and other items after the family slept off in Abuja has been arrested by men of the Nigeria.
The Nigeria Police, through the Force Intelligence Department-Intelligence Response Team (FID-IRT), arrested the chef, John Cosmos Govi, over his involvement in a case of criminal conspiracy, housebreaking, administering suspected harmful substances, malicious damage to property, and theft involving the robbery of luxury items and valuables from the residence.
The police said preliminary investigations revealed that the chef, who reportedly trained at a catering school in Cotonou, Benin Republic, secured employment within the residence after establishing contact with two accomplices identified as Peter and Moses, both currently at large.
It was gathered that the man carefully studied the routine, movements, and security structure of the residence before executing the operation late last month.
Further investigations by the police established that food prepared by him for the family was laced with a sedative substance which incapacitate the occupants as well as security personnel and made them to fall asleep.
After the substance took effect, he was said to have facilitated the entry of his accomplices into the residence, where they destroyed the CCTV system, ransacked the apartment and carted away cash alongside 20 luxury wristwatches valued at about N150 million.
“Operatives of the FID-IRT subsequently intercepted the man while attempting to flee through the Gwagwalada axis en route Lagos. During the operation, an iPhone 17 Pro Max belonging to the boss was recovered alongside a suspected chemical substance, which has since been forwarded for forensic analysis,” it said in a statement on Monday, May 25.
The chef was said to have given more useful information to the police about the incident and he is expected to be charged to court at the conclusion of the investigation.
