The operatives of the Lagos
State Task Force have arrested a commercial bus driver who has been
impersonating himself as an 'Inspector' attached with the Lagos State Police
Command, Ikeja, Lagos.
The Chairman of the Lagos
State Task Force SP Olayinka Egbeyemi who paraded the suspect disclosed that he
was arrested today by the enforcement unit of the Agency while extorting money
from some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW) at
Oshodi.
SP Egbeyemi disclosed further
that the suspect Mr. Faith Sunday John (32yrs) from Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State who
claimed to be operating a commercial (yellow bus) plying 'Egbeda to Shasha' was
caugth wearing an original cardigan and an identity card belonging to the
Nigerian Police Force.
The Chairman said preliminary
investigations revealed that both the cardigan and identity card belonged to
his late father who was an Assistant Superintendent of Police before he died
last year in Lagos.
The Chairman hinted that the
suspect who stays at No. 37, Anjorin Street, Shasha, Egbeda removed his late
father's passport from the Nigerian Police Force identity card and re-laminated
his own passport on it.
He confirmed that after well
briefed about the incident the Lagos State Commissioner of Police Mr. Fatai
Owoseni directed that the suspect be charge to court immediately.
According to the suspect
"I was working with a security company (KING DAVID SECURITY LIMITED)
before my father died last year, due to owing of several salary arrears by this
company prompted me using my late father's Nigerian Police uniform and identity
cards extorting money from members of the National Union of Road Transport
Workers (NURTW) and other commercial buses at night around Oshodi".
The suspect, however, pleaded
with the government to 'temper justice with mercy', he claimed it was the
devil's hand work.
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