Editor, Wife, Call Out Security Firm Over Phone Shop Robbery

A senior editor with Daily Times, Julius Eto and his wife, Dr Helen Eto have called out a security firm providing coverage at their business premises over the robbery of phones and other accessories worth more than N30 million from their Ikota Shopping Complex bordering Victoria Garden City, VGC in the Lekki Peninsula of Lagos.

Dr. Helen Eto, CEO, who is CEO of Superior Mobile Investment Ltd and iClick Gadgets, has run her business for about two decades from at Ikota Shopping Complex, a facility run by HFP Engineering Ltd.

However, robbers struck at the complex that has about 1,850 shops in the early hours of March 7th, 2023. Finesse Security Ltd guards claimed that they forgot to lock the gate of the facility, allowing the hoodlums to cart away about N30 million phones and other goods from Mrs. Eto’s freshly restocked shop.

Lamenting her ordeal to the police in Ajah and Panti, Yaba, Mrs. Eto said : “We took bank loans for the business plus our life savings all of which are gone. This is a wicked plan against us in our old age with children still in school, other dependents and various bills.

“We plead that the police should help us to get to the bottom of the looting to save us from early deaths as our BPs have shot up sharply because this is our main source of livelihood. A list of the goods looted from the shop was/is attached to my statements at Ajah Police Station and SIB, Yaba.”

Omokioja Julius Eto, Chairman, Editorial Board of The Daily Times and a media consultant, corroborated his wife’s account. Eto, a former Associate Editor of The Guardian and Editor-in-Chief of The Trumpet, said: “The robbery is shocking because the security gate is inaccessible even to shop owners at night, our shop is just a stone’s throw from the gate and it would have taken about at least two hours to cut through the shop’s security system.

 “This makes us to strongly see the guards as the main suspects. We were not immediately notified by the security firm or the facility managers (HFP) of the robbery which we only got to be aware of at about 8.20am through one of our employees.”

A former Editor of The Daily Times, Eto who has also worked as a senior editor at the Punch and Thisday, added: “Since the break-in on March 7 till today March 30, Finesse Security Ltd has not called to sympathize with us but has been evading our calls and texts to its MD.

“We have been doing everything to support the police investigation despite our predicament and hope they will bring the culprits to justice,” he said in Lagos over the phone shop robbery that has devastated the family business.

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