Just recently in Lagos, 3 notorious Igbo brothers have been arrested in Lagos as they were caught allegedly selling poisonous beans to members of the public.
The brothers who have been identified as Faith Chidioke and Sunday Ogbona were arrested by policemen from the Alagbado division after being alerted by a woman, who caught applying Sniper, a poisonous insecticide on beans.
The 3 brother who were arrested for adding Sniper inside beans as a means of preservation.
Punch gathered that, while Chidioke and Sunday were picked up on Friday, March 17, their elder brother, who owned the shop, was nabbed on Sunday when he went to the station to secure their bail. The police said 41-year-old Faith had wanted to influence his brothers’ release by allegedly offering the divisional police officer a N500,000 bribe, which the latter rejected.
The suspects, who hail from Ebonyi state, were paraded on Wednesday, March 22, at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja with some bags of the “poisonous beans” and some bottles of Snipers recovered from the shop.
18-year-old Chidioke disclosed that he wanted to preserve the beans with the insecticide to prevent it from being infested with insects. Adding that, it was his first time of putting the substance in the foodstuffs.
He said: “I just saw it (Sniper) as something that kills insects and decided to use it to preserve the beans and kill the insects therein. I was applying the chemical for the first time when a woman approached me and warned that it was dangerous. A few minutes after, some policemen came to arrest me. My brother (Faith) was not around when I put the Sniper in the beans.”
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