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•Suspects, who escaped from police cell nabbed
By Moshood Adebayo, Abeokuta
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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suspect and the stolen items
Photo: Sun News Publishing |
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When Olajide Timothy escaped from Lafenwa Police, in Abeokuta,
Ogun State capital, where he was held for an alleged burglary
and robbery, he may have thought that he was smart. Now he
is in a deeper mess as the police have re-arrested him.
Olajide, an alleged notorious handsets thief and armed robbery
who terrorized people of Abeokuta, had escaped from the Divisional
Police headquarters, Lanfenwa, Abeokuta.
According to the Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police
Command, Mr. Olufemi Awoyale, a deputy superintendent of police,
the suspect was arrested following allegation that he robbed
people he carried on a commercial motorcycle.
He said a policeman in mufti had arrested the suspect, adding:
“After a search was conducted at Timothy’s hide-out,
police recovered another motorcycle, engine and spare parts
of motorcycles, various handsets as well as a booklet of receipts
stolen from one of the shops burgled by the suspect and one
of his accomplices.”
Olajide, who confessed to the crime, told Daily Sun that he
and his friend now at large burgled some shops around Lafenwa
and stole various handsets.
A secondary school dropout from Kogi State, the suspect revealed
that he stole about 20 handsets in his first operation, which
he sold between N3,000 and N5,000.
“I used the profit from the operation to buy my first
motorcycle, which I gave out to somebody who rides it on a
daily basis and bring proceeds. It is from the business that
I bought my second motorcycle,” Olajide said.
Recalling how he escaped from the police station, the dark
complexioned 26-year-old said: “I played a trick on
the Investigating Police Officer when he asked me to thumb-
print on my statement. I sneaked out of the station before
scaling the station’s fence”.
He, however, denied giving money to the IPO to facilitate
his escape. “I gave no kobo to the IPO. What I just
did was to trick him and later jumped the fence, which is
not too high for me to jump over.”
The Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, (PPRO),
Mr. Olufemi Awoyale, said: “The clarification became
necessary in view of the insinuation in some quarters that
the suspect bought his freedom when he was first arrested.”
Awoyale, who urged residents of the state to be vigilant,
added that the suspect would soon be charged to court after
due investigation must have been conducted into the various
allegations against him.
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