Dismissed police corporal promoted to sergeant after fake readmission

A dismissed police corporal, Gbenga Ogundele who found his way back to the force through the back door, got promoted to the rank of a sergeant.

The suspect was last week arrested by the operatives of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit, while parading himself as a police officer.

Tribune Online gathered that the suspect aroused the attention of the IGP Monitoring Unit, when he was found heavily drunk along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

It was gathered that the suspect who gave his service Force Number as 357484, was found kitted in full police uniform and other accoutrements.

According to a source at the IGP Monitoring unit ” On January 17, 2017, at about 2000hours, while on routine anti-corruption patrol, operatives of the unit sighted a man fully dressed in Police uniform wearing the rank of a sergeant openly drinking liquor from a sachet along the street.”

The police source added that “He was intercepted and questioned on why he was drinking alcohol in uniform. He introduced himself as Sgt Gbenga Ogundele attached to Mosafejo Division, Lagos State Command.

“However, based on his unsteady mien and the fact that he could not respond to further questions especially as it relates to where he claimed to be serving satisfactorily, he subjected to further questioning,” the police source added .

He also continued that “In the course of interrogating him, it was discovered that he is a dismissed policeman. He was thereafter arrested to the office for a detailed investigation,” our sources added.”

The suspect who confessed to the crime during an interrogation said, “I was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force on September 1, 2000, and was trained at Police Training School, Iperu Remo, Ogun State.”

The suspect also added that “After the training, I was posted to Ekiti State Police Command where I served for two years. In 2004, I was mobilised to PMF 33 Squadron, Ado Ekiti where I served till 206 before being transferred to 11 PMF Squadron, Calabar.”

Olugbenga also stated that he “was dismissed from the Police after I returned from my home town in Osun State where I spent two months before coming. I was tried in an Orderly Room and subsequently led to my dismissal, he revealed further.”

The suspect also stated that “After my dismissal from the Nigeria Police Force, in 2011, I met one Ebenezer, who helped me to arrange a fake signal with which I returned to the Nigeria Police after I paid him the sum of N40,000.

I reported at the Lagos State Police Command and was posted to Mosafejo police station where I worked for three years from 2011-2014. Unfortunately for me, I was not paid for the whole years because Ebenezer could not arrange my pay point. At this Station, I went for promotion course in 2013, and was promoted to the rank of a Sergeant,” he confessed.

During a search at  his residence in  Agboju, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, a police warrant card, police belt, police uniform, and shoes were recovered from him

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