The Police in Ogun State, on Wednesday, paraded a dismissed police officer, Funmilayo Balogun, for stealing a Honda Accord car valued at N5 million.
The suspect, who was dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force, in 2010, with a corporal rank, had since promoted herself to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police.
The 35-year-old woman, a mother of two and also eight months pregnant, committed the offence in October last year, when she approached a car dealer on the pretence that she wanted to buy the car.
Balogun, who said she wore a police uniform ,added that she drove two of the car dealers to the police headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta and asked for escort to Ibadan.
Balogun,who hails from Osun State,served last at the Ondo State Police Command, before she was dismissed for using fake results to join the force.
Balogun, who said she wore a police uniform ,added that she drove two of the car dealers to the police headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta and asked for escort to Ibadan.
Balogun,who hails from Osun State,served last at the Ondo State Police Command, before she was dismissed for using fake results to join the force.
In her account, the suspect, told newsmen that she sold the car to someone in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,at N3.5 milion and had since been paid N2 million.
Others paraded were seven teenagers arrested for armed robbery. They were said to be responsible for different robbery cases in Ijebu axis of the state.
Also, one Kayode Osikoya, 32, was arrested for killing his mother at Ibefun, in Odogbolu area of the state.
Items recovered from the suspects were mobile phones, charms and eight vehicles.
Speaking, the state commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, said the command would continue to strive to make the state a crime-free one
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