MY INVOLVEMENT IN THE ROBBERY INCIDENT
The incident which led to several criticisms of my role involved four of our friends. I have been under severe criticisms and pressure from almost all my friends except you who asked to know my role in the incident.
The incident started one afternoon when we were in our room pretending to be observing our siesta. My other four friends, Bode, Tunde, Kunle, Gbenga and I could not sleep. We were discussing various issues concerning our school when our discussion drifted to the school poultry and orchard It didn't take us too long to arrive at the general belief of the majority of the students that we are not benefiting from the school poultry and orchard as expected. My friends and I then planned to sneak into the school poultry and steal some eggs and fowls.
We concluded the plan to jump into the poultry farm through the fence around 11:00 pm at night after the light-out. Before the end of the siesta. we consummated the plan and we went about the other school activities without going back on what we agreed upon.
After light-out on the day we planned to execute our intention we set out on our plan. We sneaked out of the dormitory under the cover of the dark night, and moved towards the school poultry farm. We jumped into the poultry farm through the back high walled fence with great thuds. Soon after landing n the farm -house without sustaining any injury, we moved towards the store where eggs are stored in crates
We packed many crates of eggs and loaded in our nylon bags with the aim of moving towards the cages where we intended to steal some fowls. It was while trying to take some fowls that the night guard woke up and flashed his torchlight in our direction. We felt as if the ground should swallow us because the punishment will be grievous if we were caught.
Out of fear we took to our heels and struggled to run out of sight towards the fence through which we came into the farm. When we got to the fence all my friends were able to scale it out of the farm while I was caught by the night guard while struggling to jump with a nylon bag full of eggs.
I was taken to our housemaster that night and my name was written down after which I was released to go to my room. When I got to our room, my friends were on their beds pretending to be snoring The next morning, before we went for the assembly, they initially begged me to spare them by not mentioning their names whenever I was called for questioning I told them frankly that it would be impossible not to mention their names because the night guard had seen them when we were running away in fright.
What they are castigating me for now is that I mentioned the names of my co-offenders. My explanations that I couldn't but mention their names fell on deaf ears. I believe that since we committed the offence together, we should be punished for it since our attempt to steal from the school farm failed. I hope that you will understand me better and do your best to explain my own side of the story to them.