A 32-year-old man, Abdul-Azeez Haruna, has been arrested by officers of the Ogun State police command for impersonating a military officer at Ifesowapo community of Ijako in Sango Otta.
The suspect who had been terrorizing residents of Ijako with military camouflage was caught in a show of force, at about 2:00pm, removing a television set from the house of a resident.
His action aroused the suspicion of members of the community who accosted him, held him hostage and thereafter, sent a distress call to the police at Sango-Otta Division.
Upon the arrival of policemen, Haruna still insisted that he was an Army personnel, but later admitted he was not when he sighting the soldier guarding the Otta Unit of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC).
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