Oyo police nab 50-year-old teacher for impersonation, conducting ‘stop and search’
24 August 2022 |
3:41 am
A level-14 Elementary School teacher, Adebisi Ayodele, was yesterday arrested by Oyo Police Command for allegedly impersonating a police officer and conducting a stop and search duty on the road.
A level-14 Elementary School teacher, Adebisi Ayodele, was yesterday arrested by Oyo Police Command for allegedly impersonating a police officer and conducting a stop and search duty on the road.
The Command’s spokesperson, Adewale Osifeso, in a statement, said the suspect had been faking as a policeman for years before he was nabbed.
Ayodele, who was kitted in police uniform, was arrested while performing an alleged illegal escort and stop and search duties along Asejire Road, Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Operatives of the Oyo Command, who were on intelligence patrol, nabbed the 50-year-old suspected impersonator while parading himself as an Assistant Superintendent of Police.
The suspect, a level-14 teacher at Ikereku-Idan, Abeokuta, Ogun State, is being investigated by the Command.
“Level 14 Elementary School teacher performing illegal escort/stop and search duties along Asejire Road, Egbeda Local Council has been nabbed by operatives of Oyo State Police Command on Intelligence-led patrols.
“The suspect at the time of arrest on Sunday, August 21 at Asejire under Egbeda Local Council was providing illegal escort services in a Red Mitsubishi space wagon with Registration No. ARP 34 AA, dressed in complete police uniform in the company of another female passenger.
“He confessed to having been practicing the act for years and had successfully misled a lot of his unsuspecting victims with his actions.
“He claimed to operate in Isolation along adjoining routes and link roads sharing boundaries with Oyo, Ekiti, and his base in Ogun State,” the statement read.
Also, the Command has arrested two suspects, identified as Umaru Sunday and Itoh John, for hijacking and diverting trucks loaded with cartons of cigarettes.
According to Osifeso, the suspects were arrested while waiting for the receivers of the consignment at the Toll Gate area of Ibadan.
The Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, however, enjoined members of the public to continue cooperating with officers and men of the Command while discharging their duties and to be unrelenting in providing credible, timely information capable of nipping crime in the bud at all times.
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