Lagos RRS Nabs Suspect Planting Maids to Steal
The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a unit of the Lagos State Police Command, has arrested a suspect who specialised in planting maid in homes to rob their employers of valuables.
The man who was identified as Francis Okputu (37), a former dry cleaner operator said to have abandoned his dry cleaning job and took to sourcing house helps for wealthy families.
In his confessional statement, Okputu used to go to rural areas to get the girls, who he later distributes to different homes as house helps. Police said the suspect used to plant the girls as maids in wealthy homes, ostensibly to use them to steal from their employers.
The suspect’s charade was blown open after he tried to make one of his girls, Joy Onoz, to steal foreign currencies and gold jewellery from her mistre...