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Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),
Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command have started quizzing a police sergeant who
was alleged to be selling ammunition to suspected robbers.
The sergeant, Ejembi Austin, was arrested after the
robbers who were already in police custody, with policemen set a trap for him.
He walked neatly into the trap.
Indeed, he was arrested at the point when money and
ammunition were exchanging hands.
Austin was recruited into the Nigeria Police Force
in 1999. He trained in Kaduna and later mobilized into Mobile Police Force (Mopol)
20 Squadron, where worked with working with the Rapid Respond Squad (RRS).
When he left Mopol 20, he started working at ‘Area A Police Command,’ Lion
Building, Lagos Island, under Assistant Commissioner of Police,
Mr. Imohinmi Edgal,
When some armed robbers were arrested by SARS
operatives, they confessed that they have their base in Lagos, but operated in Benin
Republic. They further alleged that Austin usually supply them with ammunition
for their guns.
When the suspects realized that the police did not
believe their allegation, they produced Austin’s phone number.
A police source said: “Right there, they dialed the
sergeant’s phone number. The sergeant, unaware that the police were listening,
greeted them in a familiar way. They told him that they needed some ammunition.
He asked them how many packets and they asked him back asked how many he could
give them right then. He replied three packets. They made appointment where to
meet. The sergeant was arrested just as he was handing over the ammunition and
collecting money from the suspects.”
Sensing the noose was tightening around his neck and
determined to escape; Austin said he used to get the ammunition from another
policeman to sell. He also denied knowing the robbers.
According to him, he thought they were policemen
calling him for ammunition.
Austin, a man with two wives and five kids, said
that his first wife was a police corporal.
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