– A suspected armed robber says a police inspector in Lagos has been helping him
– He says he sells stolen phones to unsuspecting buyers
– The victims are apprehended and forced to pay money before being released
Akeem Popoola, a 21 year old who was arrested by the police in Lagos has implicated a police inspector attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the state police command in Ikeja in his robbery scheme.
The Punch reports that the suspect said he worked for one Inspector Festus, aka Ijaya before he was finally apprehended by the police and is in detention at the Agbado division in Ogun state.
Akeem claimed that apart from being a burglar, he sold stolen phones to unsuspecting buyers who would late be apprehended by the police and made to pay money before they would be released.
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He said: “In November 2015, one of my father’s tenants and I fought. When my daddy came back home on that day, she reported me to him and he handed me over to Inspector Festus at the state police command headquarters, Ikeja. He told him I was too troublesome and wanted him to discipline me. But he (Ijaya) did not. He took me to a beer parlor at Alakuko and gave me N5,000. I was very surprised.
“Two days after, we met at another beer parlour around Agbado, where I was made to swear an oath. He brought out a gun and put some gin inside the barrel. He drank from it and gave me the gun to do same. He said he would be sending me on some errands. He gave me a mobile phone and drove me in his Toyota Camry to POWA complex in Ikeja.
“He told me to sell the phone inside the complex which I did for N20,000. After an hour, he handcuffed me and took me in his car with his boys – Abbey and Aluko – to the man that bought the phone. He arrested the man and told him to pay N200,000 if he did not want to be taken to the station. The man raised N150,000 among his friends in that complex and gave him.
“When we left there, he removed the handcuffs and gave me N5,000 and we departed.”
He said he was sworn to an oath and that he would die if he divulged the operation to his father.
“Sometime in February, the inspector gave me a Techo phone which I sold to a guy at Agbado. The guy gave me N7,000 and a small phone. Thirty minutes later, we went back with my hands handcuffed. And as he normally did, he collected about N120,000 from him before he was released. I also got my N5,000 share. I can say all this in his presence.”
Mr. Ahmed Popoola who is the father of the suspect said he regretted taking his son to the policeman.
“He had been stealing before I took him to a police friend, Yekini, who handed him over to Ijaya with a belief that he (Akeem) will change if he sees the way thieves are being punished. He had been embarrassing me. He still has a case in the Sango-Ota division. I was arrested and detained because of him.
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“When he finished his secondary school, he told me he did not want to proceed to a higher institution. I enrolled him as an apprentice in my carpentry workshop and constructed a wooden shop for him when he graduated. He removed all the planks I used to construct the shop and sold them. Let the law take its course.”
Muyiwa Adejobi who is the spokesperson of the Ogun state police command said the police was on the trail of the accomplices.
He said: “The suspect was arrested for robbery and burglary. He mentioned Ijaya and some others and we have commenced investigation. If any of them is actually a policeman, we are going to send a signal to the command he is attached to and he will be arrested.”
However, Dolapo Badmos who is the police spokesperson in Lagos said no officer by that name was in the state police force.
“We don’t have a policeman bearing Festus or Ijaya in the command,” she said.
In a related development, a commercial driver who was arrested for armed robbery, Clement Ogunsola recounted how he robbed his passenger at gun point, to raise money to discharge his sick child from the hospital.
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