A youth corper named Babatunde Asemoyebun has been nabbed by the men of the Benue State Police Command after he allegedly robbed a lady of her car with a toy gun.
A youth corper in Benue has decided hit the headlines for the wrong reasons after being nabbed by the police for engaging in armed robbery with a fake gun.
On 13th August, 2015 at about 10:00pm, Police received a distress call from one female resident (name withheld) of GRA Gboko that at about 7:30pm of same date she was intercepted by a lone-gun man at the gate to her house as she was about driving in.
That the said gun man forcefully snatched her Honda Accord (EOD, reg no. withheld), huge sum of money and two mobile phones.
All Police units were alerted, one of the Safer Highway Patrol teams also mobilized to go after the hoodlum intercepted the car at Akpagher village and one Babatunde Asemoyebun, a Corper attached to Gboko LGA found to be driving the vehicle was arrested.
One black toy gun, victim’s mobile phones, cash stolen from victim, head mask and NYSC ID card were recovered from the suspect.
Victim identified the suspect as the attacker, arrested suspect claim that he is a one man-squad. State CIID Makurdi is currently investigating.