Fake Police Sergeant Arrested

A 53-year old man, Sunday Ugochukwu, who has been parading himself as a police sergeant in the Nigeria Police Force has been arrested.

He has allegedly been duping members of the public and extorting money from commuter bus drivers and truck drivers bringing goods from other states.

Sunday was arrested yesterday by the operatives from the Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad, FSARS, Adeniji-Adele, Lagos Island, Nigeria.

Items recovered from him, the police said, include a police identity card and warrants of arrest.

Police investigation revealed that the suspect from Umuahia in Abia State is married and has three children. He resides at 3, Sikiru Alimi Street, Surulere, Lagos.

In his confessional statement to the police, Ugochukwu said he is a security officer attached to a security company at Costain area of Iganmu and his salary is N15,000 monthly.

â€œI promoted myself to a police sergeant after I succeeded in buying the uniform and identity card from Seme border to complement my meagre salary.

â€œI have never used the uniform to commit serious crime than extorting money from commuter bus drivers andÂ truck drivers. Occasionally I arrest okada riders. My main reason for purchasing the uniform for N20,000 was to enjoy free ride in commuter buses,â€ he said.

He was arrested inside a LT 35 bus he escorted from Cele expressway along the Mile 2-Apapa expressway to CMS bus stop on Lagos Island, following complaints from members of the transport leaders at CMS/Apongbon axis over police harassment and extortion.

The fake policeman reportedly exposed himself when the vehicle he was escorting was stopped by the security operatives at CMS bus stop. Before the security men could ask anything, he alighted from the vehicle with boldness and identified himself as a police sergeant and claimed he was attached to the Iponri Police Division.

When he was asked who is the DPO & DCO of the Iponri Division, he could not mention their names. Sunday was immediately arrested and taken to the Federal SARS office.

â€”Paul Iyoghojie

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2 Comments

Jonathan & Ruth says:

October 1, 2010 at 3:09 am

This is another well done job. There are a lot of contractor police men in the country. After completing their contracts each day, they deliver to their corrupt bosses who gave them illegal employment. This is actually part of answered prayers and God will have them all arrested very soon.

Iyke says:

September 29, 2010 at 4:16 pm

There are many other Sundays in Lagos. This is the fallout in our system, where a lot are compromised under the cover of authority. The norm these days, is for uniform men to occupy the front seat of our commercial buses to protect the drivers from the bigger thives known as LASTMA, and the small thieves known as area boys. It is this same rot in our system that make the LASTMA authority to tow a car as soon as it break down, without allowing the owner to even push it out of the road, dut when these truck that carry dirts break down ,they are left in the middle of the road for days, even when most of them don’t have reflective lights as if there are some vehicles that can cause accident, while others are immuned from accidents. Or is LASTMA’s objective, revenue generating?