LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Lagos State Police Command has paraded a fake Commissioner of Police (CP), a fake lawyer, and others for engaging in various crimes.
The spokesperson for the Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, who paraded the suspects on behalf of the Commissioner of Police (CP), Idowu Owohunwa, at Command headquarters, said they recovered four firearms, two live cartridges, one expended cartridge, 11 live ammunition, one vehicle, among others.
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“On 2 September, at about 4:40 p.m., Nwagu Emmanuel visited a Police station and introduced himself as Commissioner of Police. He was fully regarded as such, but upon questioning, he was discovered to be an impersonator. A search was conducted in his house, goes and various items were recovered,” he said.
“Also, on 4 September, following a complaint from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Epe Branch, against one Ibrahim Bello, who has been conducting and presenting himself as a lawyer for several years, operatives of the Command arrested the suspect in a court. He was brought in for questioning and was discovered to be an impersonator,” Hundeyin further disclosed.
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The Police also paraded 40-year-old Ganiyat Oni, who was arrested on 10 September in the Igbogbo area of Ikorodu for possession of large quantities of weed suspected to be hard drugs, including 97 “colos,” 22 wraps of loud, some mixture of loud and Arizona, and a sum of N271, 600 realized from the sales as at the time of the arrest.
Also paraded were 34-year-old Saheed Jeleel and Kazeem Jimoh, who were arrested on 5 September while allegedly robbing a pharmacy within the Ojokoro area of Lagos State.
Hundeyin said following a complaint from a victim of an ongoing robbery around the Iba area of Lagos State, operatives of the command mobilized and arrested four suspects. One locally made pistol and an iPhone 6 was recovered from them.
“The Lagos State Commissioner of Police has warned that there is no hiding place for criminals in the state. Anyone in the act should repent and face the wrath of the law,” he added.