The Ogun state Police Command through the Commissioner of Police in
the state, Ahmed Ilyasu says it has arrested a fake soldier who
allegedly killed a petrol tanker motor boy in Abeokuta.
The
commissioner confirmed this yesterday while presenting the suspect at
the command’s headquarters in Abeokuta. Ilyasu said the 49-year-old
suspect, Tunde Olatunbosun, who allegedly committed the crime on April
29, 2017 at Leme in Abeokuta, was arrested on Friday.
He
said the incident followed an argument between the suspect and the
victim, identified as Razaq, at a car wash at Leme. In his words, “On
April 29, at Alaja car wash in Leme area of Abeokuta, one man named
Olatunbosun Tunde, who brought his unregistered Sienna car to wash was
engaged in an argument with a motor boy identified as Razaq.
The argument came up over claims by the suspect that the vehicle which the deceased was working on obstructed his own vehicle. All of a sudden, the suspect who was dressed in military camouflage knickers brought out a gun and shot the motor boy at a close range and the boy died on the spot. The suspect quickly rushed to his car and fled the scene leaving no trace whatsoever".
The
commissioner said that he placed his men on red alert and the police,
through deployment of “technically – driven – intelligence-
investigation”, traced the suspect to the Republic of Togo and lured him
back to Nigeria where he was eventually arrested.
He
continued to say, “preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect
is a leader of a notorious armed bandit terrorising Abeokuta and its
environs. His gang is said to be into snatching of vehicles, kidnapping
and impersonating military officers to to dupe unsuspecting members of
the public”.
