•As officers reject N500,000 bribe, vow to do justice
An Anti-crime patrol team of the Area ‘J’ Command, Elemoro, in Lagos State Police Command has arrested an armed robbery suspect and suspected cultist, and recovered a locally-made double-barreled gun and three cartridges.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, in a statement on Thursday, September 16, 2021, said that the armed robbery suspect, Alabi Timothy, aged 23, resident of 9, Baale street, Majek, Ajah, was arrested at about 12:30am on September 4, 2021, of at General Paint, Garden area, Lekki, during a routine stop-and-search by the police.
Recovered from him were a locally-made double-barreled gun, two live cartridges and an expended cartridge concealed in a bag.
Also, a self-confessed cultist, Badmus Toheed, 22, who said that he belonged to the Aye Confraternity, was arrested with a live cartridge in the General Paint ghetto area, Ajah, at about 12:45am on same day.
Toheed had told the police during interrogation that he was initiated into the Aye Confraternity sometime in June.
Two suspects were also apprehended for offering bribe to the police to secure the release of the two suspects and pervert the course of justice.
While Adariku Sunday, aged 34, resident of 66, Henry Smith Close, Abidjan GRA, Ajah, offered the sum of N400,000 in cash as bribe to secure the release of the robbery suspect, Folorunso Akeem, aged 43, offered the sum of N100,000 cash to secure the release of the suspected cultist.
The PPRO said: “Determined to ensure justice through thorough investigation, the uncompromising police officers in charge of the case rejected the bribe.”
The Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, who commended the professionalism and uncompromising act of the police officers, admonished other police officers to emulate the incorruptible ones.
Odumosu also directed the case to be transferred to the Command’s Tactical Team for further investigation and prosecution.
