Ogun State Police Arrest Armed-robber Operating In Civil defense Uniform (Photo)

The Suspect, Adeolu Bankole

Operatives of the Ogun State police command have arrested an armed robbery suspect identified as Adeolu Bankole who operates while wearing the uniform of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC.
 
A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was apprehended on the 5th of February 2021 following a complaint by some students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ayetoro campus who reported at Ayetoro area Command that they were robbed of their belonging at gunpoint by an armed robber, who broke into their apartment, dressed in Civil Defense uniform and dispossessed them of their phones and laptop.

''Upon the report, the area Commander Ayetoro, ACP Anthony Haruna, detailed his detectives to go after the hoodlum.

After hours of painstaking investigation, the detectives received information about the hideout of the suspect. On getting there, a bag containing six phones, one laptop, a pair of civil defense uniform,s and a locally made pistol was found.

Upon the discovery, the detectives mounted surveillance in the area and at about 5pm, the suspect sneaked into the uncompleted building which is the hideout and moved straight to where the bag was kept. He was quickly rounded up and brought to the station. Two other stolen phones and a wristwatch was also found on him.

The complainants were sent for, and they all identified him as the person who robbed them. Investigation further revealed that the suspect stole the pair of Civil defense uniform from a parked Toyota camry belonging to an officer of the corp on December 2020 and thereafter set the car ablaze. The officer has also identified the uniform as his own.'' the statement read.