Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Wednesday arrested a commercial bus driver who has been impersonating as an “Inspector” attached with the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos state.
Chairman of Agency, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, who paraded the suspect, Faith Sunday John (32yrs) from Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, disclosed that he was arrested by the enforcement unit of the Agency while extorting money from some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at Oshodi.
SP Egbeyemi disclosed further that the suspect claimed to be operating a commercial (yellow bus) plying Egbeda to Shasha was caught wearing original cardigan and an identity card belonging to the Nigeria Police Force.
The Chairman said preliminary investigations revealed that both the cardigan and identity card belonged to his late father who was an Assistant Superintendent of Police before he died last year in Lagos.
The Chairman hinted that the suspect who stays at No. 37, Anjorin Street, Shasha, Egbeda removed his late father’s passport from the Nigeria Police Force identity card and re-laminated his own passport on it.
The suspect has, however pleaded with the government to temper justice with mercy, blaming everything on the devil.
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