2 policemen arrested for stealing trailer with goods worth N30million

The Lagos State Police Commissioner Fatai Owoseni declared yesterday that the two policemen charged to have been included in the commandeering of a trailer containing auto save parts last Saturday in Sagamu, Ogun State have been rejected and would be appropriately indicted. 

As per the charge leveled against them, Inspector Durojaiye Taiwo and Sergeant Victor Omorokai of the Strike unit of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, on Saturday night drove two other policemen to commandeer the trailer which contained merchandise worth N30 million. 

Omorokai was captured at Okokomaiko in Lagos, was secured with the assistance of the GPS beacon introduced in the trailer. 

Owoseni said: 

"We didn't deny the story; it was everywhere throughout the media. Some awful colleagues perpetrated a wrongdoing and it is the stand of the Inspector-General of Police that all rotten ones in the Force be presented and made to confront the law like other normal hoodlums. 

"We captured them and the ones that are on the run, we are following them. Shows have been recouped. 

"The wrongdoing was conferred in Ogun State Police Command and we have given the ex-policemen to that summon to indict them in the court of law. 

"In the same vein, I need to express that we have not secured anybody of them. They would be attempted. The Nigeria police would not save the individuals who are not deserving of wearing the police uniform." 

Owoseni included that the suspects have been given over to the Ogun State Police Command which has locale over the area where the wrongdoing was submitted.