Lagos State Task Force Arrest Two Suspects For Impersonation And Extortion
The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit
(Task Force) on Monday arrested two suspects for impersonating Officers
of the Agency and extorting money from a motorist at Ojota, Lagos.
Disclosing details of the incident, Chairman of the Task Force, CSP
Olayinka Egbeyemi said the two suspects were apprehended by the
‘Monitoring and Enforcement Team of the Agency after they had negotiated
and collected N15,000 bribe.
Egbeyemi stated that preliminary interrogations revealed that the
suspects presented themselves as officers of the Agency and arrested a
motorist for traffic obstruction by Ojota bus-stop.
He said, “They arrested the owner of the vehicle for obstruction at
Ojota, drove him down to Bolade bus-stop opposite Task Force office
where they negotiated and collected the sum of N15,000 from him”.
According to Egbeyemi, the Agency also discovered that the suspects
had perpetrated the act before saying, “We have severally received
complaints from motorists, particularly commercial bus drivers, about
activities of these unscrupulous fraudsters who specialise in
impersonating officers of the Agency and defrauding people across the
State”.
The Chairman reiterated that all Police Officers attached to Lagos
State Task Force enforcing traffic and environmental sanitation laws
always wear a jacket with a bold inscription of the Agency’s name for
proper identification while on duty. He clarified that only the Agency
and Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) are empowered by
law to enforce traffic laws on ‘BRT’ corridors across the State.
While urging motorists to desist from giving bribe to traffic
enforcement officers, the Chairman disclosed that the Lagos State
Commissioner of Police CP Zubairu Muazu has directed that the arrested
suspects, Ademola Oyegunwa (40yrs) and Olaogun Adamson (48yrs), who have
both confessed to the crime, be arraigned immediately.
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