After working with a Commissioner of
Police (CP) and an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), people expected
great things from Oliver Chukwuemeka Dike.
But rather than become a great man
in his society and community, Dike became a man who used to sponsor gang of
armed robbers to snatch exotic cars.
Dike, otherwise called Mopol by
suspected armed robbers, was arrested while he was in police uniform. He was
arrested at the Shagamu Road and had a fake police identity card on him.
The suspect 35, now a guest at the
office of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State, was
arrested in an operation led by the Officer in Charge of SARS, a Superintendent
of Police (SP), Mr. Abba Kyari.
A police source said: “Police started
the search for Dike in April 2015 after two armed robbery suspects; Akinropo
Ogunsina and Jimoh Akeem mentioned his name during interrogation that he was
the receiver of the cars they used to snatch. Ogunsina confessed that he and
his gang members snatched two Honda Accord 230 model cars and Sienna Space Bus and
sold to Dike. Unaware that Ogunsina had been arrested, Dike repeatedly kept
calling Ogunsina’s phone, asking if he had another snatched car for sale.”
According to Ogunsina, Dike bought
two cars for N280, 0000 and was requesting for Toyota Highlander Jeep, Toyota
Corolla 2014 model and Honda Accord before his arrest.
The Lagos State Police Command
Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu confirmed the arrest of these suspects.
Nwosu said that it was in the process of receiving the Toyota Highlander that
Dike was arrested at Shagamu Road. Police recovered the sum of N200, 000 from
him which he wanted to use to pay for the stolen car.
Nwosu said: “When the police came in
contact with him, he identified himself as a police corporal. He had a police identity
card with him. The police team went along with him to his house in Abuja for a
search. They recovered a complete police uniform. The police also recovered one
of the cars, a Honda Accord he bought from Ogunsina in his house.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti has ordered detectives to ensure that members of
the gang are brought to book.
Dike, married with a child, said
that he was a motor spare parts dealer with a shop in Zuba motor park, Abuja,
before he took to crime.
He said: "In 2004, I came to sell
motor parts to a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). He is now retired after
being promoted to the rank of a Commissioner of Police. We became friends. I
told him that I’d like to work for him as his driver and assist in doing some other
domestic chores for him. He agreed. I left the motor parts business for my
younger brother and started following the DC.
"I started living in his house.
I used to drive him to work and other places. In 2005, he was sent to War
College and later became a Commissioner of Police. He retired in 2012. After he
retired, all his boys, including me, were transferred to the new CP that took
over from him. The new CP was later appointed as an Assistant Inspector General
of Police (AIG) before he was retired. Since then, I stopped working with him.”
Dike confessed that the police
identity card found with him was that of the police orderly, named Udeka. Udeka
was an orderly to the first CP who retired.
Dike said: “Udeka asked me to assist
him collect his identity card from Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, where we last
worked. He said that I should bring it to Abuja for him. But I’ve not given it
to him. As for the police uniform, I evacuated it from the dry cleaner who does
the dry cleaning of our boss's uniform in Yenagoa. I brought it to Abuja and
kept it in my house.”
He said that the police arrested him
because he came to buy a Highlander Jeep from Danjuma, otherwise known as Ogunsina.
“I knew him as Danjuma not Ogunsina.
I knew him in 2011 through one of my brothers called Izuchukwu. He informed me
that he had a Sienna car for sale and I bought it for N200, 000,” said Dike. “As
at that time, I didn’t know that the car was stolen. It was after I bought the
second car, a Honda, that I knew that the vehicles were snatched. I bought the
Honda for N400, 000. Danjuma and his friends told me that they wanted to sell
it for N480, 000. I used to buy from them because they sell at a very cheap
price. It was because of the cheapness that I kept calling them for more cars
even though I knew they were armed robbers.”
Explaining why he is called Mopol, Dike
said: “People call me Mopol because I drive police officers to office and back
home. I also do their laundries. They pay me N25, 000 as a casual driver, while
my travel allowance was N9000. As I was working for the police officers, I was
also buying and selling motor spare parts. It was Izuchukwu who called me that he
had a Sienna car to sell. I came and bought it. He then introduced me to
somebody I didn’t know. It was after I had bought the Sienna car that I knew
that the seller, Danjuma was an armed robber.”
The suspect said that his wife
didn’t know that he was into shady business, adding that the only thing his
wife knows was that he sells vehicle spare parts and drives police officers.
He added: “It was the devil that
pushed me to commit this crime.”
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