Nollywood actress, Yetunde Akilapa, is in the news again as she has been arrested for breaking into a beauty lounge after closing hours in Yaba where she works.
This is coming a few months after she was beaten to a coma for a similar offence and has reportedly been nabbed in 2013, 2014 and 2018.
A lady on Twitter, Noor, took to her page to cry out about the incident after she got home and met Yetunde inside her house.
According to the Twitter user, Yetunde had packed all of her wigs and her gold jewellery pieces and was about to start ransacking her bag when she arrived home and caught her.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that Akilipa was accused of stealing from her boss; the lady who teaches her makeup.
The actress was said to have broken in at night after everyone had gone home with a master key, carting away some iPhones and iPads before nemesis caught up with her.
She was accosted and immediately whisked away by some policemen.
After a series of questioning, all that could be extracted from her was that she heard a strange voice urging her to go and steal.
The lady has insisted that the case must be taken to court even after several pleas from Yetunde’s sister.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that sometime July 2018, Akilapa was brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court charged with burglary and stealing valuables worth N7 million.
The actress, 36, while residing at Oladelola St., Ketu area of Lagos, stood trial on a three-count charge of burglary and stealing to which she pleaded not guilty.
Police Prosecutor Benson Emuerhi told the court that the accused committed the offences on June 27 at Mutairu Street, Shangisha, Ketu, a suburb of Lagos, at 2.10 p.m.
According to him, the accused was apprehended while trying to enter the apartment of the complainant, Mr Adeboye Lamidi.
Lamidi alleged that he was in his sitting room when he noticed someone was trying to open the door to his apartment with a key from outside.
Akilapa used a different key to unlock the door of the complainant’s house but was caught in the act, he said.
“l peeped through the door hole and l saw the accused trying to open my door with a key.
“ The prosecutor also alleged that the accused on Nov. 16, 2015 at 3.00 p.m. broke into the residence of Oyinlola Tuga by unlocking the door with a master key.
Tuga, who lives at Ayodele Okeowo St., Gbagada Soluyi in Lagos, reported that the accused stole jewellery, bags and other valuables worth N7 million.
“Tuga alleged that after raising alarm that his house had been burgled, his neighbours told him that they saw the accused parking her car with registration no. MUS 689 CZ in front of the complainant’s house.
“They challenged her and found the stolen items and a bunch of keys on her. The accused was apprehended and handed over to the police at Ifako Police Station,” he said.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Akilapa came into the film industry in 2013 and acted in a Yoruba film, “ Ileri-Oluwa’’, which brought her to limelight.
The actress was earlier reported to be in the news for stealing and breaking into people’s homes years before 2018 and had been on the police wanted list.
Akilapa was in the news in Feb. 2013 when it was reported that she was arrested for robbery by the police in Alade, Somolu area of Lagos.
She was sent to the Kirikiri Prison and after a few months, she regained her freedom in November 2013.
In Jan. 12, 2014, she was again caught trying to steal with a bunch of master keys hidden in her brassiere at a house in Magodo Phase 2.
The offences contravened Sections 287, 307 and 308 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
Section 287 stipulates a three-year jail term for stealing, while Section 307 prescribes seven years for burglary.
The Magistrate, Mrs Olufunke Sule-Amzat, granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 with two responsible sureties.
Sule-Amzat said the sureties must be gainfully employed with an evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.