A Beninese cook identified as Samuel Tchiki has been arrested alongside his compatriots for stealing a politician's $22,000 in Abuja.

The suspects stole the safe the money was in, vandalised it before embarking on a shopping spree with the money. Other suspects arrested for the theft include Francis Kpohouede, George Akinto, Donald Tokpe, Honore Tokpe and Emmanuel Savi and the police only recovered $13,000 from them as they reportedly bought television sets, sound systems, generators and other domestic appliances with stolen money.

Tchiki has been living in Nigeria since 2008 and reportedly moved to Abuja because of poor salary after working in a hotel in Cross River State.

“When my boss, Casmir Anyanwu, travelled, I got my friends to carry the safe from his room and we took it to Mpape, where we opened it. We found $22,000, which we shared. I gave my brother $600. I spent my share on clothes and home appliances. I don’t know what got into me; I can’t say why I stole the money,” Tchiki told Punch.

FCT's Commissioner of Police Bala Ciroma, advised Nigerians to carry out background checks on domestic workers before employing them as he paraded the suspects who have all confessed to the crime.

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As him buy d goat..na so him take sell d goat.

It is unnatural for a goat to see a tuber of yam and not eat it, so the best way to protect your yam is to prevent the goat from ever having access to it.

The faces alone ehh

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Good for him.... There are thousands of unemployed Nigerian cooks but he decided to trust a foreigner..... He's lucky he wasn't poisoned...

Some people are destined to be poor

What is a man doing with such amount in the house

See idiots, you stole a whole 7.9m and the first thing that came to your mind is electronics...

the cook and the Politician are all thieves. Money laundering policy says No one should hold more than $5000 in cash. So EFCC should also arrest the Politician for Money Laundry.

The cook sef won chop life inside life



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How can someone keep such huge amount of money in the house?

He cut small from the largesse

Politician a Saint, Cook a Thief

Good for the polithiefician. You can't feed people serving you.

Both thieves are opportunists. Refering to the actual thief and the political thief. If you know, you know.

Thank God they didn't kill him

Politician na work?

Out of 22,000 he gave his brother 600.

Where the politician get the money from.

Country wey be Say na only the thief wey steal from thief them go arrest

Tiff tif Tiff

That's not the Politicians money but, Nigerians money.

Thunder fire that Politician and the foolish Police that arrested the Benin thief that stole Nigerians money.

loomer:
Where the politician get the money from.

Country wey be Say na only the thief wey steal from thief them go arrest

As far as the police sees money they don't want to know the source. Have seen yahoo boys using police to arrest their own guys onto pick up matters