The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a mobile
police officer for allegedly stealing 15 motorbikes.
The officer, identified as corporal Sherif Sanni, was
said to have been de-mobbed about eight months ago in Yola, Mopol 14, and was
supposed to report to his next posting in Lagos State Command, but never
reported.
But rather than report to his new station, he had
retained his mobile uniform and had allegedly started using it to rob and
dispossessed unsuspecting commercial bike riders of their motorbikes.
He was reported last week by policemen from the
Ojota Police Station. The policemen who arrested were said to have received a
tip-off about his activities and had placed him under surveillance. When they
were sure he was into illegal impounding of motorbikes, they swooped on him.
He is presently being quizzed by the police.
A police source said: ‘When he was de-mobbed at
Yola, he failed to report to his new post, which was Lagos Command. He went to
stay with his friend at Agbara area of Ogun State. It was there he used to
seize motorbikes from commercial bike riders. He would come down to Ojota, to
hand the motorbikes to a man, who assists
him in selling them.”
The man, who used to assist Sanni in selling the
motorbikes, said he had sold at least 15 motorbikes for the policeman, but the
policeman insisted that he had only sold seven. Investigators had however
recovered three of the stolen motorbikes.
Sanni reportedly told his interrogators: “I don’t
use gun to collect the motorbikes. I only used to seize it from the owners
because of the ban of motorbikes in Lagos State. I don’t have any member. I
operate alone.”
He had further confessed that he refused to report
to his new post because, “I wanted to work my transfer to a new squadron.”
After being de-mobbed, Sanni was expected to revert
to regular policeman, but he said he enjoys being a mobile policeman.
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