The Lagos State police command has apprehended some suspects who pose as soldiers and and Air Force personels
The arrested culprits
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni yesterday paraded three fake soldiers, one fake Air Force personnel and three car snatchers who were nabbed in the ongoing intensive operation by the police to keep the state clean and safe.
The ‘fake soldiers’ are Markus Gabriel (22) from Ngwa in Abia State, Ikemefuna Ude (39) from Agwu (Enugu). Their Air Force accomplice is Dare Tijani (28) from Ikire in Osun State.
The others are Chukwuma Ikechukwu, 31 from Ohafia, Abia State, Israel Damascus, 32, a Ghanaian and Lucky Anene, 25, from Okuzu in Delta State.
Five cars and two Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) were recovered from them. One of the SUVs was marked BNS513AA. Among the cars were two Toyota Camry with number plates TGD733AA and ANA360AA.
Owoseni urged Lagosians to be part of the fight against hoodlums to enhance community policing, saying: “Even if you post one million policemen here in Lagos, it will not be enough.”
Owoseni said investigation revealed that Tijani, who claimed to be a dismissed personnel from the Nigerian Air Force, Kaduna, was never an air force personnel.
He said that the suspect would soon be charged to court. According to him, the suspect threatened to blow up the Command Headquarters because policemen at Ipaja Division refused to grant his friend bail.
In the same vein, the police in Lagos also arrested three fake soldiers at Iyana Oba area of Ojo. The raid of people selling noodles at odd hours, he said, became necessary because robbers use those spots as hide-outs for their weapons before going on operation.
Drug peddlers, he said, also use those spots to sell hard drugs