Monday, September 23, 2013

Shock, as Corporal arrested for robbery, reports for duty

Juliana Francis
Detectives at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),Ikeja, Lagos State, where shocked to their bone marrows, when one of the policemen they had arrested for robbery and was supposed to have been dismissed, came to SARS with a signal, indicating he had been posted to SARS.
The police corporal, identified as Jerome, was said to have been serving in Mopol 2, Keffi when he was arrested for robbery in 2012.
He was arrested by SARS Ikeja and interrogated by them. A year after his arrest, Jerome reported to SARS, with police signal, posting him to the same SARS that had investigated him. 
The signal further showed that he had been working with Zone 2, Police Command,  Onikan, Lagos State.
The first person to recognize and identified him was his Investigating Police Officer (IPO), who investigated the robbery and found him guilty.
The IPO quickly alerted the Officer in charge of SARS, Abba Kyarri.
Kyarri was not the only worried policeman at SARS over Jerome’s transfer to SARS. The different teams working under Kyarri also insisted that their lives were not safe as long as Jerome is allowed to work in that Unit.
Kyarri had immediately gone to report the appearance of Jerome to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, in charge of Administration.
Jerome was arrested a year ago, after he went to smoke Indian hemp at Ipondo, Ikeja, and picked two boys to go to rob with him.
The three went on a motorbike and made way their way to Oba Akran. They were said to have succeeded in the robbery and we already getting away, but policemen, attached to Area F command, Ikeja, had received a distress about the robbery and were already on their way.
The police chased the bike riders and rammed into their motorbikes with their patrol van, forcing them to fall and stop. The trio was arrested. Jerome was identified by his police identity card, found in his pocket.
While the other two were charged to court, Jerome was supposed to go for an orderly room trial and later dismissed, but it apparently didn’t turn out that way.
A police said that Jerome maneuvered his trial.
Everyone thought Jerome had been dismissed, thus the shock on the faces of SARS men when he came to report for duty.
DC  Administration has ordered for another orderly trial for Jerome, meanwhile, the corporal had gone back to Zone, to continue with his police work.

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