Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the arrest and detention of a police inspector, Aminu Muhammed, for alleged car theft.
Confirming his arrest to newsmen, the
spokesperson of the police command, William Ayah, said the accused robbed
thresidences of an area around his duty station, the ‘C’ Division in Lokoja,
the state capital.
Ayah added that the Commissioner of Police
in the state, Bertrand Onuoha, has ordered a thorough investigation into the
alleged misconduct.
He disclosed that luck ran out on the
inspector following the escapades of a notorious gang who specialised in
robbing houses of household items and cars in the state.
The stolen car was found in the
workshop of the policeman’s panel beater who was already working on changing
the car’s colour at Ochadamu in the Ofu Local Government Area of the state
Those who knew the vehicle and were aware
of the robbery incident in the owner’s house on 14th June 2024, quickly raised
the alarm upon sighting the car.
The car’s number plate had already been
changed to an Abuja number just as a car dealer’s receipt, backdated to 2020,
was presented by the officer as his evidence of purchasing it.
His panel beater had primed the car
preparatory to changing its colour before the alarm was raised and policemen of
the Quick Response Unit (QRU) attached to the Police Area Command, Idah,
apprehended him.
Upon reaching the ‘A’ Division in Lokoja,
where the QRU took the apprehended panel beater, it was found that the
criminals who committed the robbery had already been arrested for committing
another crime.
One of the members of the gang of
armed robbers, who had also been on the police wanted list for other crimes,
confessed to the commission of the robbery, and named the police officer as the
mastermind.
He confessed that they were
contracted to rob the house of the owner of the car for the sole aim of getting
the car for the inspector.
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