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The Edo State Police Command, yesterday, arrested a Navy officer, Ibrahim Adamu, 25, and a Correctional Service officer, Abdullahi Abdulwahab, 26, over alleged car snatching and armed robbery in the state.
The state Command Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, while parading the suspects, said they were arrested in army uniform, at Ekpoma, by the crack team of the command, who acted on credible information.
He said the suspects attacked the driver of an unregistered C300 Mercedes Benz car in Sapele, Delta State, snatched the car from him and, also, forced him to transfer N400,000 into their bank account. Nwabuzor said the suspects were taking the vehicle to one Alhaji in Abuja for sale when they were arrested by the police in Ekpoma, Edo State.
“The suspects have made statements and claimed to be personnel of the Nigerian Navy and Correctional Service, respectively.”
Nwabuzor said the vehicle and military uniform were recovered from the suspects.
Speaking with newsmen at the state police command, where they were being paraded, Ibrahim Adamu, who was recruited into the Nigeria Navy in 2019, said he was arrested for stealing a Mercedes Benz C300 car in Delta State.
“I was recruited into the Navy in 2019. I worked in Lokoja, Kogi State, before I was posted to Warri, Delta State. It was when I went on a course in Sapele that I got the mind to steal vehicles. When I finished my course, Abdullahi told me that he wanted to visit me. When he came, I told him that there was a job that would fetch us money and he agreed.
We charted a tricycle from Warri to Sapele for the operation.
“We saw a vehicle without a number plate in Sapele and asked the driver to stop, but he refused. We chased him to a village where he finally stopped. And I told him we were taking him to our office for driving an unregistered vehicle, and he pleaded that we should settle the matter there, but we refused.
“I took over the steering from him and started driving, but when we got to Ogara road, he asked how much would he offer us to settle the matter, and I said N500,000; but he pleaded and transferred N400,000 to one POS number in Abuja which we gave him. The POS later sent the money back to us. We were driving to Abuja when police arrested us.”
On his part, his accomplice, Abdullahi, a Correctional Service officer in Kaduna State, said Adamu invited him to Warri for the job, adding that it was his first time to be involved in a robbery act.
