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Men of the Oyo State police command have arrested two people over alleged impersonation.
The suspect, Enock Victor (31), was paraded as fake soldier while Samuel Olatunji (41) claimed to be a policeman.
The suspects were, on Tuesday, paraded as soldier and police officer impersonators by the Oyo State police command at its headquarters at Eleyele, Ibadan, the state capital.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Olabisi Okuwobi, who spoke on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Tambari Yabo Muhammed, disclosed that the two suspects were caught in Ogbere, outskirts of the city in Ona-Ara Local Government Area of the state and Kajorepo area on Iwo-Road/Ojoo end of Lagos/Ibadan/Ilorin expressway.
The supposed soldier, she said, had engaged in helping people to forcefully collect money from debtors. Where such debtors failed, he picked any valuable from such debtor, claiming to have power to deal with the debtor.
Unknown to such people that Enock was not a soldier; he was seen as a soldier because of the boots he wears about.
In the case of the fake police officer, the police boss said he was found terrorising residents of Idi-Aro, the artisans and herbalists, asking them to settle him so as not to arrest them for undisclosed offences.
Claiming that he had been in the business for the past two years, Olatunji lost out in the game when one of his victims, a herbalist, refused to play the ball on the account that the demand for settlement was getting too frequent.
How we robbed travellers on highway —Robbery suspectAdewale Ajayi, Osogbo
AN armed robbery suspect arrested by the Osun State police command during a robbery operation on the Ibadan/Akure Expressway, Adedeji Ojo, on Wednessday, revealed to the police tactics adopted by robbers who robbed travellers on the highway.
Explaining details of how they operated to journalists at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Osogbo, Ojo disclosed that his gang did cause minor accident with trailers on the highway with the intention to obstruct flow of traffic.
According to him, “We call it diversionary tactic. We will target a trailer and drive recklessly beside the trailer and make sure the trailer scratched our car. Then, we will park our car on the road in front of the trailer and the driver of the trailer will come down to see the level of damage. Then, we will grab him while the trailer will remain on the road.
“Other drivers will alight from their vehicles to see what was happening and how to resolve the matter so that the trailer can be moved and allow free flow of traffic. When we observe that many vehicles have parked and some people have come down, then we will start the robbery operation and rob them very quickly.”
