Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - A delivery driver, who allegedly fled with medical equipment valued at N34m has been tracked and arrested by police detectives attached to the Zone 2 Police Command Headquarters, Onikan-Lagos.
Disclosing this to newsmen, the Zonal Police Public Relations
Officer (ZPPRO), CSP Ayuba T. Umma, in a statement released, explained that the
suspect was contracted by an Osun-based medical doctor to deliver the equipment
from Ikotun and Ikeja Lagos to Idumota, for onward delivery to a client in
Zamfara State.
According to the statement, the medical doctor, Ajefolakemi
John of Iloromu Quarters, Ile-Ife, gave the job to the suspect on April 15,
2025, only to discover that he had made away with the equipment, adding that he
had since then been out of reach, as all efforts to reach him proved abortive.
To compound it all, according to Ajefolakemi, the suspect’s
known telephone lines were all switched off, prompting him to petition the
Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command, AIG Adegoke
Fayoade, who directed the Zonal Anti-crime Unit to embark on discreet
investigation, with the ultimate goal of arresting the suspect.
The investigating team swung into action and tracked the
suspect to Adoka Community in Benue State, and eventually apprehended him in
his hideout at Ugbokpo Community.
All the equipment, comprising a Mindray SV 300 laptop
ventilator XI; Mindray 3-part hematology analyzer XI; Mindray patient monitor
X2; patient monitor trolley X2; Zoncare 12 lead ECG XI; and Mindray DP 10
laptop ultrasound XI, were recovered.
The only missing item was a Mindray DP 10 laptop-ultrasound,
valued at N3,400,000.00k, which the suspect claimed he sold to one Chukwudi
Eyinaya in Mushin for N1m.
However, in his confessional statement to the police, the
suspect confessed that the remaining items are intact, and kept in his sister’s
custody in Ihiala area of Anambra State.
The PPRO stated that on completion of the ongoing
investigation, the suspect would be charged to court.
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