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Fake police officer nabbed along Lagos Ibadan Expressway

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
Fake police officer nabbed along Lagos Ibadan Expressway
Suspected fake police officer

Operatives of Ogun Police Command have arrested one 38 year old man, Akinyemi Thomas, for impersonating a police officer.

He was arrested on Thursday.

The suspect was arrested when policemen attached to Sagamu divisional headquarters were on routine patrol of their area with the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, CSP Godwin Idehai.

They sighted the suspect in full police camouflage uniform at under the bridge along Lagos Ibadan Expressway.

His conduct raised the suspicion of the policemen who then stopped to question him.

Immediately the patrol vehicle stopped, the suspect took to his heels.

He was then chased and apprehended.

On interrogation, he confessed being a dismissed policeman but using the uniform to extort unsuspecting members of the public.

Recovered from him aside from the uniform is a police warrant card.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered a full investigation into the activities of the suspect with the view to charging him to court as soon as possible.

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