Crime
Policeman Apprehended for Stealing And Selling Pistols To Cultists
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2 years agoon
Temper ran high at the Kwara State Police Command at the weekend, after a 38-year-old Police Traffic Officer, Haruna Yusuf, disclosed how he picked a police service pistol from a mosque and sold it to members of a cult group in Kwara State.
The missing pistol led to the dismissal of former Station Officer in charge of Omu-Aran division, Ehigimetor Ileso, who booked for it but could not return it to the armoury.
Sadly, the dismissal led to his demise one year later.
Information at Vanguard’s disposal revealed that Sergeant Yusuf, who is attached to the Police Traffic unit, met his waterloo, following the arrest of some suspected cultists by operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team.
The suspected cultists: Tajudeen Olalekan Hammed ,Chukwudi Eze, Alebo Elijah ,Alebo Isreal, Abimbola Olaonipekun and Olarinde Abiodun, who left Kwara State to unleash mayhem on members of rival confraternity in Osun State .
Some weapons which included the police pistol, were recovered from them.
During investigation, one of the suspects, Eze, a Disk Jokey revealed that he bought the weapons from the policeman.
According to 33-year-old Eze who hails from Enugu State,” Aside being a DJ, I also sell phone accessories at Traffic Junction. I bought a police pistol and a locally made gun from the police officer for self – defence because of the nature of my work. Later, I discovered that I could not use the police pistol, I sold the two guns to “Rector”, who is a student of Kwara State Polytechnic
On his part, the policeman, Haruna, said, “I joined the police as a Constable in 2008. I am from Benue State but I have been serving in Kwara State since I was enlisted. I was first posted to Omu Aran Division and later transferred to other divisions in Kwara but I am now back in Omu Aran.”
”I didn’t steal the pistol. I don’t know what came over me when I saw it at the mosque“
” I can only say that I am sorry. Out of the two arms that I sold to him, one belonged to the Omu Aran Divisional Police Station, while the other one was locally-made. That one that belonged to the division, was what I found outside the mosque behind the police station.”
“I didn’t know that it belonged to the SO It was about three years ago. I sold it to the DJ for N47,000 while I sold the locally made to him for N25,000.
“When I picked the gun, it didn’t occur to me to take it to the station .
”Before God and man, I have never been involved in any case of stealing before. The SO is late now. When I heard that the division was looking for the gun. I was afraid to recover it from the DJ and hand it over to the armourer and I was not at the division when the Station Officer was being tried for the missing pistol”.
The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, who confirmed the arrest of the police Sergeant and suspected cult members, revealed that exhibits recovered from the gang included” one police Beretta pistol, one locally made revolver pistol, two locally fabricated pistol, one local cut- to -size short gun , 11 live cartridges, five knives, three battle axes and one cutlass “.
Nelly Agwu is an educationist, a journalist, a Blogger, graduate of History. Very dynamic and a realist. A mouthpiece of the oppressed. Easy going and a Philanthropist.
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