#EndSARS: Three held for putting on police uniform in Lagos

 Taiwo Jimoh

IGP, Mohammed Adamu

Police in Lagos have arrest a 29-year-old Sodiq Adigun for allegedly looting and wearing a police officer uniform after burning the Orile Police Station recently.

The suspect was arrested with two others suspects after their video went viral on social media after the Orile police station was burnt and looted by some hoodlums during the ENDSARS protest.

In the video some of the hoodlums were seen with the policemen riffles and uniform, while some hoodlums carted away television sets, walking talking radio and other valuables from the station.

The State commissioner of police, CP Hakeem Odumosu who paraded the suspects yesterday at the command headquarters, Ikeja said they were able to arrest the suspects through the viral video.

He said the suspects also used the uniform to extort money from a motorcycle rider and other road users in the area.

 

"One of the suspect wore the rank of a Chief Superintendent of Police(CSP) who  called himself a Divisional Police Officer, while the other one who put on Inspector rank called himself the station officer, also arrested with the DPO is the orderly.

"We are not going to rest, we are going to recover all the looted items from the looters including that of the police properties, because on Monday I called on market women, community leaders not to receive or buy looted items from the hoodlums.

"We are sound a note of warning, because if you are arrested with the looted items such a person would not be spared, we are going to punish such a person according to law and constitution."

Adigun told our Correspondent that he picked the Inspector uniform on the ground during the protest and wore it to snap picture.

He said: “I was riding my tricycle when members of Oodua People's Congress (OPC) arrested me that what I am may do with the picture, I told them I only picked it to snap picture with it, unfortunately, I was handed over to the police for being in possession of the uniform. He also denied using it to extort money from motorcycle riders, saying he regretted his action, he appealed for forgiveness.”

While the suspect who claimed he is the DPO simply gave his name Ana Shehu said it was his friends who were calling him DPO because of the uniform he was putting on.

The CP, however, said, the suspects would be charged to court after completion of the investigation.