The suspect who was working with his accomplice, Tijani
Bashir, now at large, had accosted his
victim, Al–Hassan, at Total Filling Station, Agege and told him that he was a
policeman attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Special Offences.
He told his victim that he was impounding his motor cycle
for plying restricted area and for operating at prohibited hour.
Bewildered, Al–Hassan began to plead for negotiation but
Hrmid told him to bring N20, 000:00 but the victim could only produce
N5,000:00, which the suspect rejected.
“When he refused to accept the N5,000:00, he mounted the
bike and rode it towards Iyana Ipaja. I begged him but he told me to get down
from the bike because I sat behind him while his partner rode the bike they
brought”, Al–Hassan explained.
He continue that “he
rode through Agbotikuyo, Agege. At Mulero, I forced the bike to a stop by
removing its key from the ignition, and I got down.... We were arguing when two passers-by joined us and
they requested for his identity card when he told them that he was a policeman
with the Lagos State Taskforce.... Reluctantly, he flashed his ID card
before them but one of them was so swift to snatch it from him. Then, he began
to chase the guy, who quickly ran towards RRS patrol team nearby who arrested
him and collected the dagger he was holding."
At the RRS's Headquarters, three other victims from whom
Hrmid had collected bikes weeks before he was caught on Wednesday, came with
particulars of their bikes, alleging that Hrmid, along with an accomplice, whom
they described took their bikes.
The victims, Shuaib, Abdullahi, Umaru Hassan and Salisu
Umaru, stated that the suspect collected their motor cycles in a spate of three
weeks, and that one his victims was shot at a close range in the cheek at
Shoretire Street, Agege.
One of the victims, Shuaib Abdullahi explained that the
suspect at around 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday last week, took his bike, FKJ 259 QA,
Boxer model, from him, under the pretext that he was taking him to Taskforce Office.
"He drove me to Ile–Zik before threatening me to get
down or he would kill him at the deserted place. I requested for his number and
he gave me a fake number. I called the number immediately he left but the
number didn't go.... I learnt he was arrested yesterday, that was why we came to
RRS to collect our okada from him," he said.
The suspect, however, failed to deny the allegations of the
three other victims when they confronted him.
Speaking on the development, the Police PPRO, SP, Dolapo
Badmos confirmed the arrest of the suspect, stressing that his arrest might
help shed more light on reported cases
of motor cycles theft in Agege and its environs. The suspect has been transferred to Specail Anti-Robbery
Squad(SARS) for further investigations.
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