Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force have arrested a commercial bus driver who has been impersonating an Inspector attached to the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja.
The Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force SP Olayinka Egbeyemi said the suspect was arrested on Tuesday by the enforcement unit of the Agency while extorting money from some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at Oshodi.
SP Egbeyemi disclosed further that the suspect, Mr. Faith Sunday John (32yrs) from Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, who claimed to be operating a commercial (yellow bus) plying ‘Egbeda to Shasha’, was caught wearing a cardigan and having an identity card belonging to the Nigerian Police Force
He said preliminary investigations revealed that both the cardigan and identity card belonged to his late father who was an Assistant Superintendent of Police before he died last year in Lagos.
The Chairman hinted that the suspect who stays at No. 37, Anjorin Street, Shasha, Egbeda removed his late father’s passport photograph from the Nigerian Police Force identity card and replaced it with his own.
In his confessional statement, the suspect said, “I was working with a security company before my father died last year, due to owing of several salary arrears by this company, I was prompted to use my late father’s Nigerian Police uniform and identity cards to extort money from members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and other commercial buses at night around Oshodi”.
Some commercial bus drivers who witnessed the arrest hailed the enforcement unit of the Agency claiming that the suspect collects N200 each from different commercial buses plying ‘Egbeda to Shasha’ on daily basis.
A member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers who simply identified himself as Mr. Kamoru Babalola commended Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for the activities of the Task Force, adding that their operations in the last few months had reduced criminal activities within Oshodi and its environs.
Source: Lagosstate.gov.ng
