When 22-year-old Mr. Samuel Sunday walked into
the Living Faith Church, popularly known as
‘Winners Chapel,’ located at Sango-Otta, Ogun
State, last week Sunday, many thought he came
to worship God.
Nobody knew he came into the worship centre
to steal a car. Thus, while others were singing
and praising God, Sunday was frantically
searching for the perfect vehicle to steal.
The perfect vehicle would be one, whose owner
forgot the gate pass inside the car. Whenever
church members were driving into the church
premises, security guards at the gate would give
them a gate pass. Nobody is allowed to drive in
or out of the church premises without the gate
pass.Sunday was almost giving up hope of ever
finding the perfect car, when he chanced on a
Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV).
The owner, apparently in a hurry, left the gate
pass in the car. The hunter crowed joyfully. He
had successfully broken into the car and was
struggling to undo the security device of the car,
in order to turn on the ignition, when a woman
sighted and watched him. When he noticed the
woman, he smiled sheepishly, grimaced at
himself and said: “I have lost my car key.” He
didn’t know the woman was the owner of the
car.
Needless to say, Sunday was whisked away by
policemen from Obasanjo Police Station, Ogun
State.
After his arrest, Sunday blamed everything on his
action, including his father’s early demise and
devil. The police said: “Sunday broke one of the
rear glasses of the SUV and forced himself into
the driver’s seat. He was battling with the
security device in the vehicle, when he was
discovered.”
The owner of the car, who refused to give her
name, said: “It happened last week Sunday. We
had just finished the fourth service and decided
to eat at the restaurant. We were still at the
restaurant, when one of our neighbours called
that we should wait for him. He said he wanted
to drive home with us. I told one of my
daughters to go and wait for our neighbour at
the point we parked our car. When she got
there, she saw the young man and rushed back
to tell us.”
The woman continued: “Initially, the suspect
didn’t know that the vehicle was ours. He told us
that he owned the vehicle and that he had lost
his key.”
Sunday, who claimed to be 19-year-old and later
22, described himself as a gospel singer. He also
described himself as an undergraduate and a
driver. He said: “I don t know what came over
me. I wanted to take the vehicle home. It has
been long I left home. I’m behaving this way
because my father died when I was very young.
I have not gone to my mother’s house in
Lamgbasa, Ajah for some time. I have been
staying with my nephew. I wanted to go back
home with the vehicle.” A police source at
Obasanjo Police Station, said: “The suspect is a
car thief ! We recovered wraps of Indian hemp
from him. He went to the church just for the
purpose of stealing a car from the park.
We found out that he had moved round the
parking lot before he finally saw the SUV. The
owner left the gate pass inside the vehicle. He
wouldn’t have been allowed to drive the vehicle
out of the premises without the gate pass.
