A police corporal attached to the
Ikorodu Divisional Police Station, Igbogbo Road, Ikorodu Area of Lagos State,
South-west Nigeria, Goroye Folagbade, has been arrested and detained for
allegedly stealing and selling a motorcycle belonging to Saheed Owolabi. The
Operation Officer of the Police Division, Ebuwa Vincent, was said to have
seized the motorcycle from Saheed a few days after Christmas because he
violated traffic law but could not produce the motorcycle afterwards, claiming
that it had been taken to Alausa whereas the motorcycle had been stolen and
sold. After several failed attempts to recover the seized motorcycle, Saheed
eventually found his motorcycle with another commercial motorcyclist, Ismail Olomitutu,
at Anibaba area of Ikorodu on Thursday, 10 January, 2013 and he raised an
alarm, saying he was the rightful owner of the motorcycle. P.M.NEWS gathered
that Ismail was interrogated before he eventually confessed that it was one of
the station guards, Goroye Folagbade, who sold the motorcycle to him for
N55,000.
Goroye later confessed to have
committed the said criminal act when he was summoned by the Divisional Crime
Officer, DCO of Igbogbo Divisional Headquarters after which he was arrested and
detained at the same police station. According to P.M.NEWS sources, “Goroye
does not know how to ride a motorcycle so, he probably must have asked Ismail
to come for the motorcycle inside the police station when no one was
suspecting. Even the OPS in charge may have connived with him to dispatch the
motorcycle because he lied to the owner of the motorcycle that it had been
taken to Alausa
The police corporal who spoke with
P.M.NEWS correspondents over the phone from detention, begged them not to write
about the incident. When Goroye was told that the Area Commander, ACP Amos
Omuiyadun, was aware of the matter, he continued to plead with the reporters to
help him. “I’m ruined, please help me out. Don’t let me end here,” he said from
the police cell. Sources close to Goroye also revealed that the Police Corporal
was planning his wedding introduction with fiancee who was said to be heavily
pregnant.
The Public Relations Officer of the
Lagos State Police Command, DSP Ngozi Braide, when contacted, claimed not to be
aware of the matter and promised to get back to our reporters. As at press
time, the PPRO refused to give any reply to the message sent to her about the
incident.
PM NEWS
