A fourth year student was this morning interrogated in the security office over theft of a laptop belonging to a post-graduate female student. The incident happened at 11 am on the second floor of the library.
The complainant left her laptop with a student seated at the adjacent table and went to the administration block to pick research questionnaires . The suspect is said to have walked over to this student and claimed to have been sent to pick the gadget on her behalf. He then left with the laptop to the library cafeteria, leaving it there after having a cup of tea.
On coming back from the administration block, the lady was shocked to find her laptop missing and immediately notified the library security officers. The guy whom the lady had left the laptop described the suspect upon which the security men acknowledged having seen a man matching the student’s description. He had acted suspiciously, going in and out of the library several times. The laptop was later recovered from the cafeteria.
The suspect claimed to be a member of the Christian Union and that he had never stolen anything before. He pleaded with the security men to forgive him as he “didn't know what came over him”. Apparently, he intended to keep the laptop safe at the cafeteria for the lady, one he did not even know.
The suspect and owner of the laptop recorded statements with the security department. The Dean of Students will decide the fate of the suspect.
Reporting by Remington Galo and Valentine Marian
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