Police nab fake cop officer in Ekiti, parade girl who sets up friend for rape
The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a man, Olalekan Ezekiel, for allegedly dressing like a police officer. Also nabbed by the police is a student of the College of Science and Technology, Ijero Ekiti, Busayo Kayode, who was arrested for allegedly tricking his bosom friend into the hands of 10-man gang of rapists.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu, who disclosed this while parading 26 suspects in the state police headquarters in Ado Ekiti, on Wednesday, stated that the police also recovered from Ezekiel one unregistered Honda motorcycle, adding that he will be prosecuted soon.
Ezekiel, who posed like a police inspector, was arrested on February 20 on Esure-Awo road when he was intercepted by a police patrol team. He later confessed that he was not a police officer after thorough interrogation.
Inalegwu disclosed further that, Busayo, who was arrested in Ijero Ekiti few days ago, was alleged to have specialized in recruiting vulnerable girls for the gang to rape in turns, particularly members of Ave Cult Group in Ijero campus.
According to the CP, the killing of OC MSS, Mr. Idowu Taiwo and Engr Kunle Enisan, and the kidnap of a Sweden-based Emmanuel Adeleke, made his men to swiftly extend their dragnets of intelligence gathering to Kano and Kaduna states, where some arrests were made.
“The operatives successfully recovered a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Motorola Android Phone and Blackberry Passport belonging to the late OC MSS. Also, Infinix and Itel phones belonging to waitresses working at a eatery joint where the late officer was abducted before being killed, were recovered.
“The suspects are helping my men and they will be charged to court soon,” the police commissioner said, adding that he had established a ‘Crime Hot Spot Policing Squad’ to smash criminals that have taken Atikankan, Adebayo , Ajilosun and Ojumose areas of Ado Ekiti, as safe havens.
Inalegwu disclosed that the command is partnering with sister commands in Ondo, Kwara, Kogi and Osun states to curtail activities of kidnappers in the zone, adding that he is also doing the mapping for strategic operation of the thick forests along Ikere-Igbara Odo-Ogotun and Ise-Emure axes where kidnap victims were being regularly kept in Ekiti to reduce this nefarious act.
“We are also enlisting the services of local hunters and vigilante groups for constant patrol of these deadly forests, so that when we occupy their hideouts, they will have no option than to run”, he said, adding that “We have also made very landmark achievement in the area to ensuring peaceful co-existence among the herdsmen and farmers in the state”
Inalegwu, who commended the state government over quick intervention in Ayede/Itaji communal clash and for clearing the road necks in all the 16 local governments, said that the measures had helped his men in carrying out their statutory operational duties, added that “We are forming various groups selected from all these stakeholders so that all of us can be on the same page to be able to checkmate incessant crisis among them and ensure that Ekiti is in peace.”
