Police have captured a fake warrior and seized a truck-heap of Indian hemp on Ajuwon-Akute Road in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, yesterday paraded the fake warrior, distinguished as Emmanuel Abiodun, at the state charge central command, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
Ali, who additionally paraded 34 suspected culprits captured regarding furnished burglary, cultism and hijacking, communicated the availability of the charge to give security to occupants amid and past the Yuletide.
He revealed that the 29-year-old fake warrior, who wearing Army cover uniform and equipped with two toy weapons, was seized at the Redemption Camp, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The chief said men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), who followed up on a tip-off, appropriated the truck-heap of Indian hemp on Friday.
He included that as the security specialists surrounded the truck on Ajuwon-Akute Road, the driver and others in the vehicle bounced out and fled.
Ali said when the truck was in the end sought, 297 sacks of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp were recouped. Talking with writers, the fake fighter admitted to the wrongdoing.
The suspect said he purchased the Army uniform in Aba, Abia State for N3,500.
Abiodun asserted that he had going about as security escort to ministers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and had escorted a minister to the Redemption Camp before he was captured last Thursday.
He said: "I had turned out to get a call outside the Redemption Camp when a resigned general saw me and confronted me and tested me.
Later I was captured and gave over to the police." Abiodun, who asserted to be a vendor Navy, on the other hand, said he didn't lament his activity on the grounds that "I had for a long while been itching to be a fighter".
Giving a breakdown of the order's accomplishments in the most recent six months, Ali said no less than 116 outfitted thieves were captured while seven were killed inside of the same period.
The police boss included that among the suspected thieves were eight who had admitted to grabbing 38 unique autos in Lagos and Ogun states.
He unveiled that 205 faction individuals and seven hijackers were additionally captured amid the period while 69 vehicles and 125 ammo were recouped.
Then, Ali cautioned against the utilization of explosives, for example, bangers, knockout and firecrackers amid the Yuletide.
The police manager said anybody got possessing any of the previously stated either for use or deal would be captured and arraigned.
He said: "No merchant was offered permit to acquire any of these firecrackers.
That is the reason the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has focused on that no explosives and firecrackers would be permitted.
"We won't permit blockage of lanes. Any individual or gathering of persons who hinder the street or make a street out of reach to its clients, and interest for cash or any thing, coercively, from individuals from the general population or street clients will be dealt with like an outfitted looter for such act is commensurate to equipped burglary and nothing less."
