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A 21-year-old Nigerian who sought for a job as a sales boy only to bolt away after a day with his employer�s personal Toyota saloon car is in the grips of the Nungua Police. The boy, Shadrack Ojo, was alleged to have approached Mrs Sussana Amagbor following her advertisement for the position of a sales person and introduced himself as a Nigerian who was in the Ghana to go through the necessary formalities to enter the Regional Maritime University located at Nungua. Mr Ojo therefore asked to be given the vacant job while he waited to put the necessary things in order regarding his mission for coming into the country. Barely a day after Mr Ojo�s encounter with his would-be employer, he was left in charge of the shop he was supposed to be managing while his employer attended to some other business. But to the amazement of Mrs Amagbor, she received a call from a friend who told her of how her shop was left empty with only her 5-year-old son she left in Shadrack�s care remaining in the shop. It was on her return to her emptied shop that she realised that her Toyota Corolla saloon car whose key she left in the shop was missing. Mrs Amagbor said she reported the case to the Nungua Police who contacted their various divisions through wireless calls and at about 12 midnight, she received a call from Aflao informing her of a young man attempting to cross the Ghana-Togo border with her car. She then arranged with the Nungua Police where she was provided with a police escort to meet the men who made the arrest at Accra Shopping Mall, where she identified the car and Shadrack Ojo, who was handed over to the Nungua Police. When The Finder contacted the Nungua District Police on the issue, they confirmed the story and said that Shadrack would be arraigned before court today. The police are however warning the public of such modus operandi of car stealing in Accra. The Finder�s independent checks reveal that many stolen cars from Ghana have been driven across the country�s borders.