A car washer, Idris Ayotunde, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stealing a car.
The car is a Ford brand with registration number EPE 707 FM.
He was said to have stolen the car in Lagos, but arrested on Friday, December 4, 2020.
According to the spokesman of the police command, DSP, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the car washer, Ayotunde, was arrested at Alakija Village via Olodo at about 8:17 a.m. by safer highway patrol team during a stop and search duty along Abeokuta/Ibadan Expressway.
Oyeyemi explained further: “The team stopped the car and demanded for its documents which the suspect was unable to produce, consequent upon which he was taken to Odeda Divisional Headquarters where the DPO, Ajayi Williams, personally interrogated the suspect and found out that he actually stole the car.
The suspect who claimed to be an OND holder from a polytechnic in one of south western states explained that he joined the car wash situated at Jimoh Bus Stop, Shasha Akowonjo in Lagos State not up to one month.
“He stated further that the owner of the car brought it for vacuum cleaning and handed over the key to him. Since they don’t have vacuum engine in their own car wash, he decided to take it to another car wash nearby but he changed his mind on the road and bolted away with the car.
“It was on his way to Ibadan where he intended to dispose the car that he was accosted by the policemen and subsequently arrested.
“The owner of the car, one Mrs. Shofidiya Tosin, who had reported the case at Shasha police station has been contacted and confirmed that the car was stolen from her.
“Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for onward transfer to Lagos State command where the car was stolen.”
