Detectives
attached to the Lagos State police command have arrested a suspected armed
robber, who disguised as a lunatic to maim innocent persons. It was
gathered
that the 27-year-old suspect, Olayinka Ogundimu, was arrested at Anifowoshe
Street, Ikeja area of the state.
Residents
had informed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at MAN centre, who led his men
to the scene and arrested the suspect. Prior to his arrest, he was going around
the community during the day as a mad man, while he goes out with his gang
members to rob at night.
It was also
gathered that whenever they are going for operations, the suspect always go
about with a Point of Sales (POS) machine, and withdraw money from victims’
bank accounts at gunpoint.
The Guardian
gathered that a POS machine, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards, SIM cards,
bank tokens, bunch of keys a live tortoise and toy gun were recovered from him.
Ogundimu
told newsmen that one John gave the toy gun to him and he was not using it for
robbery. “I am not a mad man, but I pretend to be a lunatic. It was because
some residents caught me with live tortoise and the toy gun that they invited
the police to arrest me. I don’t use the POS to collect money at gunpoint. I
picked the POS and other items recovered from me on the floor.”
A police
source said, “the suspect was pretending to be a mad man, but to our surprise,
when the tortoise was recovered from him, he started weeping profusely.
Immediately we arrested him, he quickly removed his SIM card from one of his
phone. But we swiftly collected the second phone from him. While at our
station, people were calling him. We are going to track those who called him to
ascertain who they are.”
The state
police boss, Imohimi Edgal, who paraded the suspect yesterday at the command
headquarters, Ikeja, said the suspect was a notorious armed robber who has been
terrorizing Ikeja and its environs.
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