A police sergeant, simply identified as Omorokai, reportedly attached to the Striking Unit of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos state has been arrested for alleged robbery.
Omorokai, alongside three others, whose names are yet to be ascertained, were arrested at the weekend by the Okokomaiko Police Division and another Ikeja SARS team for allegedly diverting a trailer carrying a 20-feet container in the Okokomaiko area of the state.
The Punch reports that the company, which owned the 20-feet container, had put a distress call across to the police that armed robbers attacked the driver and the conductor.
The police swooped on them after the trailer which had a tracking device, automatically halted and was traced to the Okokomaiko area.
Reports have it that four policemen from the SARS, Ikeja, were purportedly involved in the robbery, but three of them escaped from the scene, leaving only the sergeant who was arrested.
Confirming the arrest, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, said investigation was ongoing into the matter.
According to her, “We made arrests and the command is investigating the incident.
“I am yet to confirm if a police sergeant is among the suspects arrested and if he is involved, you can be rest assured that the command knows the disciplinary actions to take,” the PPRO added.
Meanwhile, a police source disclosed to the newspaper that “What happened was that four policemen, attached to SARS, Ikeja, on Saturday waylaid the trailer carrying the container around the Abbatoir, Agege area.
“The trailer was heading for Sagamu in Ogun State.
“The SARS policemen, led by an inspector, drove a Toyota Sienna car, and they pretended to be officers at a checkpoint.
“When the driver of the trailer stopped, they attacked and ordered him to get out of the trailer, and they began to drive the vehicle towards Agege to sell the container, but the buyer in Agege was not willing.
“They, therefore, moved to Okokomaiko to get another buyer. It was there that the police from the Okokomaiko division arrested them.
“The police also arrested three others, including a supposed buyer of the container which was laden with auto spare parts,” the unnamed police source stated, adding that a sum of N30m, said to be proceeds from the sale, was with the runaway policemen.
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