Barely a month after she was arrested and charged to court for impersonation, Miss Angela Tonye Omieh, was yesterday paraded by the police in Ondo State for the same offence.
Omieh, who was arrested by men of the 323 Artillery Brigade, Akure, with full military uniform on the two occasions, claimed she used the uniform to escape the prying eyes of the security men each time she goes out for smuggling. According to the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Isaac Eke, who paraded the impersonator, the fake soldier usually gives her name as either Tonye Omieh or Jamilla Suleiman.
Briefing journalists on the activities of his men in the past one month, Eke said the command had been able to arrest 53 suspected criminals, including the fake solder, for various offences such as armed robbery, cultism and kidnapping.
Out of the suspected criminals, the commissioner said 23 were arrested for armed robbery, one for kidnapping, two for child stealing, two for cultism, one for car snatching, one for murder and one for impersonation.
Also, he said 10 arms, including locally-made pistols, single-barrelled guns, Dane gun and toy guns, live cartridges and expended cartridges, were recovered from the suspects. Eke said on May 29, his men received information that a DAF truck with registration number SMK-911-XE loaded with cement was hijacked at gun-point at Ikere- Ekiti in Ekiti State by some hoodlums where the driver was shot dead and the ‘motor boy’ injured.
He said the truck was heading towards Orita- Obele in Akure. It was, however, intercepted by policemen from Area Commander office in Akure who arrested three suspects.
The suspects, Abdulrasak Olalekan, Akindele Ojo and Henry Afolabi, were arrested and transferred to Ekiti for further investigation. On the case of child stealing, Eke said the suspect, Janet Obi, confessed that she bought the child from a prostitute in Ikare-Akoko. Eke added that some of the suspects had been charged to court while others would be arraigned on completion of the investigation.
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Omieh, who was arrested by men of the 323 Artillery Brigade, Akure, with full military uniform on the two occasions, claimed she used the uniform to escape the prying eyes of the security men each time she goes out for smuggling. According to the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Isaac Eke, who paraded the impersonator, the fake soldier usually gives her name as either Tonye Omieh or Jamilla Suleiman.
Briefing journalists on the activities of his men in the past one month, Eke said the command had been able to arrest 53 suspected criminals, including the fake solder, for various offences such as armed robbery, cultism and kidnapping.
Out of the suspected criminals, the commissioner said 23 were arrested for armed robbery, one for kidnapping, two for child stealing, two for cultism, one for car snatching, one for murder and one for impersonation.
Also, he said 10 arms, including locally-made pistols, single-barrelled guns, Dane gun and toy guns, live cartridges and expended cartridges, were recovered from the suspects. Eke said on May 29, his men received information that a DAF truck with registration number SMK-911-XE loaded with cement was hijacked at gun-point at Ikere- Ekiti in Ekiti State by some hoodlums where the driver was shot dead and the ‘motor boy’ injured.
He said the truck was heading towards Orita- Obele in Akure. It was, however, intercepted by policemen from Area Commander office in Akure who arrested three suspects.
The suspects, Abdulrasak Olalekan, Akindele Ojo and Henry Afolabi, were arrested and transferred to Ekiti for further investigation. On the case of child stealing, Eke said the suspect, Janet Obi, confessed that she bought the child from a prostitute in Ikare-Akoko. Eke added that some of the suspects had been charged to court while others would be arraigned on completion of the investigation.
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