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Man Uses Wife, Children As ‘Collateral’ To Collect N43,000 At POS Shop

A Middle-aged man has abandoned his wife and three children in a Point of Sales shop at Oluku near Benin City, the Edo State capital.

Reports had it that the man went to the POS shop with his wife and three children, gave his Automat­ed Teller Machine (ATM) Card to the female POS at­tendant and requested for the sum of Forty-Three Thousand Naira.

Unfortunately, the trans­action did not go through; the man then pleaded with the POS attendant to give him the Forty-Three thou­sand naira (N43,000) to give to a customer waiting for him at home while his wife, Mrs Faith David and the three children should wait behind until the ATM connection goes through as an assurance that he would return swiftly.

The transaction happened at 3 p.m. on January 9, 2020, and as at 11:02 p.m. the same day, the man was yet to return.

After waiting endlessly, the POS attendant then re­ported the matter to the men of the Ekiadolor Police Divi­sion of the Edo State Police Command who have now tak­en the woman and her three children into safe custody.

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The POS Operator de­scribed the man’s action as “stealing by trick.”

She, however, blamed the situation on the cur­rent economic problem in the country.

Mrs Faith who was in tears while speaking to journalists on Sunday at the police station appealed to kindhearted Nigerians to come to her aid by en­suring she leaves the police station with her kids.

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